Niamh Donnelly, co-founder of Akara Robotics
In this extended chat with Niamh Donnelly, the award-winning entrepreneur and co-founder of Akara Robotics, we learned even more about the challenges of building robots that can work with humans and went through an extensive breakdown of various robots on the market today, from Roombas to robot dogs to creepy humanoids. We also got Niamh to reveal her favourite robot, exclusively for our HeadStuff+ Community listeners. You're welcome!
Jump to 17:15 for all the stuff that wasn’t in the main episode.
And check out these robots:
— Paro, the ‘therapeutic’ baby seal…
The skinny
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