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Can Cartwheel Robotics Redefine Humanoids as Our New Best Friends?

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Cartwheel Robotics is trying to build robots that people can connect with.

Founder Scott LaValley worked at Boston Dynamics and Disney 's Baby Groot robot.

Cartwheel's humanoid robot is designed to bring joy, warmth, and a bit of everyday magic into the spaces we live in.

The current generation of commercial humanoids is pretty much the opposite of what he is looking for.

Cartwheel is developing two robots that are designed to work in warehouses or factories.

The end goal is to put these small social humanoids into homes.

Cartwheel has been in business for three years now, and got off the ground by providing robotics engineering services to corporate customers.

The company is experimenting with AI for whole-body motion generation.

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