The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – AI Robotics: Revolutionizing Industries with Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Episode Date: January 5, 2024

AI Robotics: Revolutionizing Industries with Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Airobotics.fr Show Notes About The Guest(s): Jason Poiblaud is the Technical Director of AI Robotics, a company based in Marseille, France. They specialize in developing robots that utilize artificial intelligence to revolutionize various industries, including retail, hospitality, healthcare, and logistics. Summary: Jason Poiblaud, the Technical Director of AI Robotics, joins Chris Voss on The Chris Voss Show to discuss the company's innovative robots and their vision for the future of robotics. AI Robotics is focused on rethinking the collaboration between humans and machines through significant advancements in AI and robotics. They have developed five different robots, each with its own unique capabilities and applications. These robots are designed to enhance customer experiences, improve efficiency in industries such as retail and healthcare, and provide assistance and companionship to individuals in need. AI Robotics aims to create a world where humans and robots work together seamlessly to create a safer and more efficient environment. Key Takeaways: AI Robotics is developing robots that utilize artificial intelligence to revolutionize various industries, including retail, hospitality, healthcare, and logistics. The company has developed five different robots, each with its own unique capabilities and applications. The robots are designed to enhance customer experiences, improve efficiency, and provide assistance and companionship to individuals in need. AI Robotics aims to create a world where humans and robots work together seamlessly to create a safer and more efficient environment. Quotes: "Our commitment is to rethink the collaboration between men and machine through significant advances in AI and robotics." - Jason Poiblaud "Our vision is to build a world where human-machine collaboration transcends boundaries, creating a safe and efficient environment." - Jason Poiblaud

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who puts on the CES show, making his annual appearance on the show, telling us a preview of what's going on. In the meantime, all week long, we'll have all sorts of great appearances from the folks that will be exhibiting at CES. Today, we have another company that is coming to us and we'll be talking to their representative about what they'll be doing at CES and you can get a preview of what's up to them or you can just reach out to them if you haven't gotten a chance to run by the show. AIRoboticsDrones.com is on the show with us today. They're

going to be talking to us about what they do and how they do it. Jason Pueblo is a technical director for them, and he's on the show with us today. Welcome to the show, Jason. How are you? Thank you for the invitation. So I'm pretty good. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be there.

There you go. And give us the.com that you guys have. Any other places maybe you want people to look you guys up on the interwebs. So I think on the name, it's AIrobotic.ether, not AroboticDrones. Oh, okay. So I have that wrong here? It's AIrobotic.ether. AIrobotic.ether. I can write it.

Yeah. There you go. All right. So give us a 30,000 overview about what you guys do there and how you do it. Okay. So I write the name of the company on the chat if you see this. Okay. Yeah, go ahead and slap it in there.

So it's AIrobotics.fr. Yeah. There we go. There we go. All right, I stand corrected. So tell us about the company. What's inside of it? Give us a 30,000 overview of what it does.

Okay, so we are a company based in Marseille in south of France. So now we're in the front line of the technological revolution. And our commitment is to rethink the collaboration between man and machine through significant advance in robotic and artificial intelligence. So our vision is to building a world where human-machine collaboration transcends boundaries, creating a safer environment for men. And you guys have robotics that basically serve several different functions. It looks like there's about five different versions of your robotics. Yes, so we already have five patents in development.

Tell us about some of the names you have for these different robots and what they do. Machine. So, yeah, now we have five robots we're going to put on the market in 2024. Not the five of them, but three robots in 2024 so the first robots it's a hugo and jeffrey they are robots made to process in large retail and catering and hospitality they can do service they can do a lot of a lot of interaction with people. They have an intelligent logistic inside. So the service robots, it's to revolutionize the customer experience with several robots and an automated solution.

Now, is AI involved in the robots operation? Yeah, a lot of AI. We have two patents in AI also. So two different. One is Produce Intelligence Artificial and Generative. So the difference of the predictive, it's an anticipation of the market trend, user needs and technical

order shell development. And generative, it's automatic creation of content, design, and model based on solution. So the kind of development we put in this robot, they can like that really revolutionize the market and the human machine, the human machine. There you go. So what are most of the businesses you're targeting at? What are the robots going to be used for? So we are really a worldwide vision, but mostly it's business to business. So we already have some customers in France and Europe with pre-orders of our robots.

It's like already 800 robots pre-ordered. Wow. So we work with our customers because we want to change the vision of robotics. We work with the final clients. We ask about them, what they want, what they need with the robot. With that, we can develop and adapt the robot to the requests of the final customer. This is the particularity of our robots. So they are multimodal.

We have a base with navigation. On this base, after, we can do an upper with the recommendation of our clients. So it's like if the robot has to go to retail or catering,

hospitality, hospital environment, or personal services. We can adapt and develop with our R&D department robots self-made for the customer. Wow. So definitely you guys are bringing robots to the forefront of everything, whether it's business, even smart home, assistance at work. Looks like they can be used to serve. Yeah, in industry, restaurants, they can be used in agriculture, every kind of industry.

There you go. Can I get a robot to get me a beer out of the fridge when I need one, stuff like that? That's what I need. So it's one, this one, if you can see on the website, the robot, it's Stellar. So this one it's the most biggest robot we are in development.

So normally it will be ready in 2025 or 2026. So it's a domestic use robot. So with really comfort and all management, the system is really to make home smarter and safer. And also to take care of all people and sick people. I don't know if I can say it like that. So there is home, you can do the cleaning, you can be connected to the home, to connect to the domotik, the television, they can do vision with people in the family, they can take the health of

the people. So there is a lot of technology who are improved and developed for this robot so we we yes we really wanted to to make a a a robot an innovative robot in a native solution for from home and so we think it will be ready in 2025. So on the website, it's the Stellar robot. There you go. 2021. Yeah, there is harm on the robot. So we can manage it to bring beer in the fridge or something else in the fridge.

Also, Coca-Cola, if you prefer. That's what I need. No problem. Yeah. So this is kind of interesting so does it also provide security like it wanders around the house make sure that there's no intruders maybe you know identify intruders etc etc of course we develop for another client for airports so in the airport the the robot can, with the AI, can the artificial intelligence take a lot of, how do you say that simply? Not pictures, but the robot is connected with all the server and all the information of the passenger and they can with the artificial intelligence take say if a flight will be dangerous or not dangerous and can also provide from disease and virus.

You know, everyone has today a smartwatch. So the thing is to connect the robot with the smartwatch. So the thing is to connect the robot with the smartwatch. And with that we can add the the pulse, the position of the body. And so with that, we did the artificial intelligence can calculate if the people maybe have a hypertension or something like that. And the robot have also sensor. They are programmed to see if there is some disease and virus like COVID in airports and to bring alert to people if someone has a virus or a disease.

But he don't know yet if the people are sick. Yeah. So it's on development also to secure the environment and public center and airport. So it's why we really have a worldwide vision and all kinds of industry. And the robots, I think, it will be in the future, there will be robots everywhere.

But we want to put this robot with a really good connection with people and to assist them and really help them to have a better life. There you go. Now, it looks like one of the things the robots can do is like medical and different things you mentioned like monitoring people you know if someone's homebound they're older or maybe they're sick or disabled this can

give them kind of a way where you can check on them monitor them make sure they're okay but also probably a little bit of an interaction, like, you know, as if someone's there caretaking for them. I know, I know my mom talks all day long to her Google, to her Google Home. They have a conversation all day long. So this can be a great way to monitor people that might be in care. Yeah, of course. To, to put interaction with all people and the people are alone at home.

So this is really, yeah, this is the point we want to also develop with our domestic robots to help old people and give them more interaction, more facility at home to, I can say that, to retard the whole people and to go to home care. I don't know the name, but when they are… Like rest homes, care centers? Yes. Looks like you'll do medicals and hospitals. Imagine hospitals need, you know, there's,

there's short staff now with nurses. So I know they need as much help as they can get. So that, that can probably do a few things too. Take things to maybe a room or something to give to a patient or maybe, you know, run tests on them or like you say, see if they're running a high fever or whatever? Yeah, they can bring food or can bring in room to patient medicine. They can do a lot of things.

And also for children and child in hospital to make them distraction, to make them make games, but mostly to help hospitality people because I think it's worldwide also now, there is a problem with recruitment and personnel in hospitality. So they need people and with this kind of robot, we can help them to have a better day at work to facilitate the way to work.

So with this kind of robot, we really want to change the way they work in industry, hospitality, restaurant, everywhere. So with that, it will be also to have an appointment to facilitate the task at work. There you go. One thing I see too here, one of your other products is a thing that is an intelligent robot designed to meet inventory needs of mass distribution and retail. That seems pretty interesting.

I can see where that would be applicable. My first thought is in grocery when they have to check the aisles and see what the inventory is maybe. Yeah, they make inventories and they can reduce the mistake of people they can wait people make mistakes people not all people but the the mistake it's human so the the way with the robot is to to to resolve that problem and to facilitate facilitate the way the of inventory in industry and in big retail and like that we can yeah help on this kind of company also to to facilitate the way to work there you go so so many different robotic solutions you guys are off in a market

sounds like you guys are running you guys are across the nation with different offices, right? Now, well, in France. In France? Okay. Yeah, but in 2024, we're going to announce that in CES, we are developing different now structures in the world. So basically in North America, in North Africa, in Pacific, and in Emirate Arab Union. There you go. So we're going to just have to get used to these little robots running around.

They kind of look like children sort of people, only they can roll around and do all the stuff they need to do. We're going to be seeing these everywhere. And you guys are shipping a large part of these in 2025 then? Yeah. Already in the market, there is some kind of robot, but they are not multimodal like our robots. So we work with an open frame robot like that.

We can work with the final customer and adapt it to his request. So that's the point we want to develop. The most important part we want to develop in our robots. So we work with the Lego, the game Lego. So we can choose what you want on your robot and assemble it, the robot, the way you want it. And so you guys also have AI on them. So I guess they can always be customizable.

They can always be adaptive to what they do. How do you think it makes a difference using AI as opposed to just having a plain old robot? Like I have those vacuum robots. I don't think they have AI in them. They just kind of vacuum my house and stuff, you know? Yeah.

So I think it's the second mostly important part in the robot, the AI. So it's why we have also the patent in development of predictive and generative AI. So mostly in the product, the produce AI on the robots. If you want an example, if the robot is on the supermarket and it's in front of a customer and it can can recognize the age of the people if he talks with the children or if he can talk to a teenager or young people and with that

he can adapt his speaking and also his marketing so that's that's a really a really important point on our robot, the artificial intelligence. And the development, it's quite important and it's a long work to do that, but we're in a really good way. And on the first robot we put on the market this year, the artificial intelligence will be ready and every month and every year we can upgrade it so it's also another point on our robots so they are connected and you can benefit of all the the new version of ai and all the new grades. There you go.

So you've got the Yugo, which is the intelligent solution for catering, hotel and master distribution sectors. You've got the Stellar, which is a smart home companion. Kind of looks like a little child holding a tray. And then so like I can basically, it's like,

it'll be like Alexa or Google and they can chase me around the house. Robbie, who is designed for medical and nursing home sectors, those are always important. My sister's in a care center. I know what a nightmare those places can be, and they need all the help they can get. They're usually understaffed, so robots could definitely help over there. And then you've got the FOXI, Intelligent Automation for Logistics, Optimal Industrial Performance, Retail, all that sort of good stuff. So what's your big vision there? What do you see the big future of?

You're just going to distribute hundreds and hundreds of thousands of these robots and bring in a whole new age of robotics and AI? Yeah, that's our vision, to send and put robots everywhere in the world and develop different kinds of robots after, because this is the first step of AI robotics after we also developed robots in green tech and a lot of other industry. And so we really want to change the vision of robotics in the world. So in the few years, we will see robots everywhere for the company, but we really

want to make a difference with our robot, with the artificial intelligence and the human-machine interaction. This is our point. And also to make green robots, if I can say that, with recyclable, not tools, but recyclable robots. So after one year of using, you can send it back to the robot and we can reuse a lot of parts of it. So that's also a point we really want to make

in our company to make the most green robot we can. There you go. I want to hire a team of robots to just follow me around and worship me all the time. They'll be like, oh, great one. Oh, Chris Voss. Oh, great one. We worship you.

And they'll just follow me everywhere. And people in the streets will be like, what's with that guy? I don't know. He must be somebody. I think that'd be awesome. I think I'd pay extra for that. This robot little army of people are following that dude.

Why are all those robots following that guy? He must be the Pied Piper of robots. So they go, well, I think this is exciting, man. There's going to be robots everywhere pretty much at this point. We've got robot cars. Here in America, we've got the robot delivery food service. Like in places like San Francisco or California, these little bots running around

delivering food the cars are the wild thing because i'm i'm still not used to not seeing a driver in a car that's a kind of old world yeah but yeah having stuff that can run around the house do stuff for you you know and then of course maybe i can have a little cult of robots that will follow me around and worship me as some sort of cult leader and they'll be like oh oh great human one i'm going to do that on purpose because i want i want to i i'm worried about terminator do you realize that in the movie terminator the original movie yeah yeah terminator also is winsmith and yeah i don't remember the name, but the robot after... I think it's that, yeah. Do you realize that that movie was filmed in 1984, and there's a scene where they say in the movie that...

She says, well, you don't have that technology to build autonomous killing machine robots. And they go, we do in 40 years. Well, guess what 40 years is as of the past two days 2024 yeah it's funny because we we talk we talk about this movie yesterday and oh did you yeah yeah you guys are planning something should we know about this no no because we know in the future the future is the now is changing and the technology also so our plan is to to to make the world safer and more easier for humans and to put the robot on the robot side and the human on the human side

so that they can work together and they can have a good relationship. That's the way we want to put the robotics on the future. See, this is why I'm going to have my own cult of robots following me around and worship me. I'm going to make sure that the power structures stays in place there. But as long as you don't change your name to Skynet, I think we're all good. So how can companies out there that are thinking about

wanting to utilize something like this, or consumers, et cetera, how can they reach out to you and find out more on board with you guys and find out if it's a fit you mean on the CES show how can they meet up with you guys at CES or on the website is there contact yeah and on the, there is all the social network or you can contact us. There is also an address email. And on the CES, I can tell you our stand, the number of our stand. It's, I will give you that. So like that, we can meet us and it's a pleasure to meet people on the

CES and talk about robotics and future or synergy between company because we are also open to work with other company to make a better world with robotics. Alright, sounds good then. Well, thank you very much for coming to the show. We really

appreciate it, Bud, so that we can learn more about what this is going on. I'll just look forward to having my robot cult in a year or two. And they'll just follow me and worship me. And, you know, maybe chicks will be like, hey, that guy must be really cool. He has a robot cult. I should go date him or something. It'll help with my Tinder profile. Thank you very much for coming to the show, Jason.

Give us your.com or your.fr one more time. So, thank you to invite me on your show. It was really a pleasure to meet you. Also, if I'm in France now, I'm

pretty far off you, but it was a really pleasure to speak about our company tonight and to have the pleasure to explain what we want to do in the future with artificial intelligence and robotics.

There you go. Thank you very much for coming on. Go to AIrobotics.fr. That's AIrobotics.fr and you can check out all the wonderful things they're doing over there and I think it's exciting this is going to be an interesting world

that we're going to be going to live in so there you go send us a message and it's a pleasure to exchange with you people there you go and look for him at Eureka Park down there in the basement of the Venetian lots of great companies will be in the French contingency area. You should be able to find him in there. Thank you very much, Sharon, for tuning in. Go to goodreads.com, FortressCrispFoss, linkedin.com, FortressCrispFoss, and all the crazy places we're on the internet. Be good to each other. Stay safe and watch for continuing coverage of CES on the CrispFoss show all this week. Thanks for tuning in. Bye-bye.