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Samantha Johnson on the Robot Giving DeafBlind People a New Way to Connect
Robotics is often judged by how quickly, powerfully, or autonomously a machine can move.
Samantha Johnson built a robot to solve a much more human problem: helping DeafBlind people access information and communicate with the people they love.
In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Samantha Johnson, co-founder and CEO of Tatum Robotics, about how a chance meeting with a DeafBlind woman named Elaine inspired a tactile signing robot that is now being used in the real world.
When Samantha asked Elaine how they could stay in touch, Elaine explained that they could not call each…
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