In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Jason Richards, CEO at DaxBot. DaxBot makes a charismatic robot for food delivery. Jason speaks on their delivery robot, their crowdfunding campaign, DaxBot’s revenue model, working with lawmakers to have robots on the sidewalks, and Jason teases their realtime operating system, DaxOS.

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EPISODE LINKS:
– Jason’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason–richards–3821511a2}
– Daxbot’s website: https://daxbot.com/}
– Daxbot’s crowdfunding campaign: https://www.startengine.com/daxbot}

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OUTLINE:
– (0:00:00) Start
– (0:00:39) Introducing Jason and Daxbot
– (0:22:11) Choosing not to have Dax talk
– (0:25:11) Human–in–the–loop and controlling Dax
– (0:36:00) Deploying Dax
– (0:37:00) Daxbot company
– (0:40:09) Crowdfunding
– (0:59:40) Dax and the novelty effect
– (1:06:50) Revenue model, robot–as–a–service, and partnerships
– (1:18:07) Stairs?
– (1:21:20) Laws around robots on the streets and working with lawmakers
– (1:24:32) On not doing silly things to make
– (1:30:07) Timeline for Daxbot
– (1:32:02) DaxOS
– (1:42:55) Links

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