Parts of The IP Behind the Social Robot Sophia Will Be Open Source Soon 

The Sophia Collective will make IP from Sophia, the social robot available as open source. The foundation is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland

 

The Founder(s)This is Startup.io’s first interview ever with a foundation. We talk to Michelle Tsing (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laptopradio/) and Ben Goertzel (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengoertzel/)of the Sophia Collective (https://www.sophiacollective.org/). The Sophia Collective is a foundation, based in Zug, Switzerland, and will make parts of the IP behind the social robot Sophia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(robot)) available as open-source.

Michelle worked early at PayPal, she works on loving.ai (https://loving.ai/) and Robotics for Good (http://bit.ly/RoboticsforGoodCommunity) is a big fan of Blockchain. She also advises early-stage startups.

Ben studied mathematics and has ever been interested in computers, especially AI and recently blockchain as well. In the past, he has been working on Sophia.

 

I am excited to enable the geniuses of the world.

Michelle Tsing, The Sophia Collective

 

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I think robots will be friends with humans.

Michelle Tsing, The Sophia Collective

 

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Further Readings / Additional ResourcesYou can learn more about David Henson, of Hanson Robotics here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hanson_(robotics_designer)

 

 

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