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Episode #573: Beyond the Hype: Building Robots for Actual Humans
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Stewart Alsop sits down with Antoine Marcel, CEO and cofounder of Flourish, to explore the future of home robotics and what he calls "solarpunk" automation. Antoine discusses why Flourish is building wheeled robots with arms instead of following the humanoid hype, arguing that the expensive legs and teleoperation approach isn't practical for real consumers today. The conversation ranges from the philosophy of robots that disappear when you're home (rather than becoming constant companions) to the bureaucratic nightmares of modern life that robotics might actually solve. Antoine explains how their $3,500 robots can be trained in thirty minutes using just your...
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Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. This podcast is for you if you have an insane drive to find the truth of things. It's not the good answers that we seek, but the good questions. I interview a range of different guests from many different fields all with the intention to uncover the simple truths that are hidden in plain sight. Most people don't want to go there. I go there. My guests go there and you benefit.
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. I've got Antoine Marcel here and he's the CEO and co-founder of Flourish. Welcome to the show. Hey, thank you so much. So what are you guys building? It's kind of simple. We are building a home robot for the domestic. We are building the first robot that is really made for domestic, made for normal people, not tech people,
not robotist, just a robot that really do the stuff for you. And so we're building a lot around like accessibility. How do you make a robot that is useful today and not a research product? And is it a humanoid? Is it a other form factor? What's the deal with the form factor? It's mobile-based, mobile-based robot.
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