Social RoboticsIntuition Robotics raises 25 million dollars for ElliQ eldercare companion
The Israeli company said it would use large language models to make its desktop companion more conversational.
Intuition Robotics added 25 million dollars, a mix of venture capital and venture debt, led by Woven Capital with Toyota Ventures and others joining, bringing its total funding to 83 million dollars. ElliQ, launched commercially in March 2022, is a desktop robot companion for older people, and its customers include several US public agencies on aging. The company said it was adding large language models to augment ElliQ's scripted conversations, with guardrails, and features such as image generation. It was a clear example of LLMs being layered onto an established eldercare robot.
Source: TechCrunch
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