Social Robots, with David Packman, Co-Founder Packabby Robotics

25/03/2025 53 min Episodio 6

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Welcome to the Pieces AI productivity podcast, where we dig into how experts use AI to be more productive, as well as geeking out in general on different AI topics.🤖 In todays episode, Jim is joined by David Packman, the co-founder of Packabby robotics, a company that makes social companion robots powered by AI. Jim and David reminisce on Clippy (it looks like you’re writing a letter), and talk about how AI in particular in cute robots provides a much needed social interaction for people on the spectrum who need a way to practise socializing, or for anyone who wants to talk through something with someone who won’t judge.David also talks about the power of social robots with long-term memory, and how enabling what appears to be simple memories, such as remembering what changes you make to a recipe, can unlock a whole new powerful capability in your robot, just like how the Pieces Long-Term Memory enables a new style of AI prompts to retrieve relevant information for you about your activities.🌐 Links:Packabby RoboticsConnect with David on LinkedInMini Moe on IndiegogoBuild a 3D Printed ClippyInstructions to build Clippy👉 Try Pieces for free: ⁠⁠⁠https://pieces.app⁠⁠⁠💡 Learn more about Pieces features: ⁠⁠⁠https://pieces.app/features⁠⁠⁠Connect with Pieces:X: ⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/getpieces⁠⁠⁠Bluesky: ⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/getpieces.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/getpieces/⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/getpieces/⁠⁠⁠Discord: ⁠⁠⁠https://pieces.app/discord⁠⁠⁠In this episode:0:00:00 - Intro0:01:49 - Why and how David built Clippy0:08:49 - Introducing Mini Moe, a small robot companion0:14:18 - Why humans like interacting with anthropomorphic characters0:24:33 - Using decision trees to handle difficult questions0:32:05 - Whiskas, the cooking robot0:36:42 - Long-Term memory is important for social robots0:42:59 - Get you brown Mini Moe0:46:29 - More on conversational and long-term memory

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