INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Intuition Robotics, the company best known for its ElliQ robot, a digital home companion for the elderly, today announced that it has
raised a $36 million Series B round co-led by SPARX Group and OurCrowd
Toyota AI Ventures, Sompo Holdings, iRobot, Union Tech Ventures, Happiness Capital, Samsung Next, Capital Point and Bloomberg Beta also
participated in the round
This brings the total funding for the company, which was founded in 2016, to $58 million.The company, which sees it as its mission to build
digital assistants that can create emotional bonds between humans and machines, also disclosed it is working with the Toyota Research
Toyota previously said that it wanted to bring an empathetic AI assistant to the LQ that could create a bond between driver and car
SkulerIntuition Robotics CEO and co-founder Dor Skuler tells me that the company spent the last two years gathering data through ElliQ
In the process, the company spent more than 10,000 days in the homes of early users to gather data
The youngest of those users were 78 and the oldest 97.On average, users interacted with ElliQ eight times per day and spent about six
minutes on those interactions
the company is focusing on
In the car, the empathetic AI assistant will adapt to the individual user and, for example, provide personalized suggestions for trying out
new features in the car or suggest that you open the window and get some fresh air when it senses you are getting tired
gets the data feed, builds context, looks at the goals and answers three questions: Should I be proactive? Which activity should I promote?
As Skuler also told me, the company is already working with another automotive company to bring its Q platform to more cars; however, he
employees, most of whom are engineers
And it will be hard work because this is not an app
