The social intelligence infrastructure for robots
Robots are about to live with us.
We are teaching them how.
Imagine yourself walking down the hallway. Someone steps left, you step right. Someone is carrying groceries, so you hold the door. Two people are talking, you wait, and then you say excuse me.
These illustrate the unwritten expectation of being around people: timing, distance, tone, turn-taking, and much more. The things you and I do without thinking, and machines cannot do at all.
Everybody Robotics builds models and infrastructure that let any robot, anywhere understand people, interact smoothly, and integrate fluidly into everyday spaces. Powering perception of what people mean, not just where they stand. Intuition of what happens next. The small courtesies that make a machine welcome.
Robots are leaving the factory floor for kitchens, clinics, and corner stores. Whether we end up glad they came will come down to how they behave in the room.
We would like them to be good company.