AI and Robots In pop-culture, a robot is an intelligent humanoid machine. And since most of us are more familiar with pop-culture robots than with actual robots, the pop-culture vision tends to be the dominant one. When someone stumble upon a robot, it is expected to be as intelligent as …
Do we fear the end of the wahoo effect with Heasy?
Every time we start working on a new project, comes the moment where the robot is released in a public area, whether it’s a shop, an office lobby or a train station. Every time the same thing happens: at first, people are intrigued by this new character they’re not used …
How much time would you spend interacting with Heasy?
While looking into all the P.O.C. projects we’ve been working on over the last 12 months, we found interesting insights. One caught our attention more than the others: the average interaction time with our robot kiosk Heasy. As of today, they last about two minutes. What does this mean? Is …
Robotization of the restaurant
“Short of workers, fast-food restaurants turn to robots” Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a very interesting article. While anxious papers are flourishing, predicting us a terrible future made of robots taking our jobs, this one took an unprecedented approach. The article explains that entry-level low-wage jobs in fast-food …
Understanding why our robot kiosk Heasy doesn’t talk
We are often asked why our robot kiosk Heasy doesn’t talk. After all, other robots already have this ability and we see more and more digital assistants like Alexa or Siri where interactions are only verbal. Are we just a bunch of lazy guys? “It’s not a bug, it’s a …
The kid and the robot
Field testing is something that really matters to us at Hease Robotics. How do people behave with the robot, from the moment they notice it to the moment their interaction is over? Along the way, when is the interaction really meaningful? When, and why, is it less relevant? How can …