Love is where it’s at — even for robots.
★A day in the life of a Baby robot★
Phew!!
Our team made a significant step in Baby development while I was in San Francisco!
(Just in case there are readers who may not know what Baby is, Baby is our personal robot in creation.)
What an eventful stay! So many serendipitous encounters and surprises, and we are very grateful to have been given the opportunity to feel all the heat emanating from this great city.
Everyone we met, for some reason, had something to offer, like a guiding spirit, to help us understand what we need to do to make our Baby better in one way or the other, and it is almost uncanny how all these people walked into our lives in a perfect timing.
Random strangers we met on the street happened to be interested in robotics and machine learning, or an Uber passenger we shared the ride with happened to be running a mobile app business. Or this guy walked by us in the office happened to take notice of our Baby robot and told us that he knew this incubation program geared towards hardware developers.
Or this guy who we met through AirBnB, who was an AR/VR product developer himself, could not seem to stop smiling when I told him that we are making weakest robot the history has ever seen.
There were moments, embarrassing moments where we showed our robot to a bunch of University of San Francisco students only to disappoint them because we could not get Baby to do what it was supposed to do, and we wanted to hang ourselves right on the spot out of embarrassment.
We cherish all these moments. Each encounter strengthens our belief in Baby robot, and gives us assurance that our commitment to bring human interaction to the next level will not be a waste.
We want everyone in the world to wake up each morning, excited to be part of this world, eager to start the day by wanting to know the world and people.
We want the world to value meaningful communication, a heart to heart conversation based on love and trust.
We want the world to get over the linguistic obstacles, cultural and social differences, and just enjoy the sheer fortune that we are all born in the same era, and as human beings.
Our Baby robot will be the prime agent to realize a such worldview:)
Maybe this is just my hippie side talking (I guess I hang around Haight Ashbury way too much!) but we are in in for a long haul, and we will continue to ask ourselves how we can make this world a better place in our own right.
Until next time, stay well San Francisco!
XOXO,
YUKI
