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December 6, 2018

Can cute robot startups stop us feeling lonely?

Meet three tech founders building robots that battle loneliness: No Isolation, CareClever and Consequential Robotics.


Kitty Knowles

5 min read

Karen Dolva with No Isolation's AV1 robot.

Bright eyes shine across a classroom in Oslo. They aren’t human eyes. They belong to AV1, a small friendly-looking robot developed by Nordic No Isolation, one of Europe's robot startups.

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An AV1 being used in class.
An AV1 being used in class.
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A Cutii robot.
A Cutii robot.
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Consequential Robotics has developed the rabbit-like MiRo.
Consequential Robotics has developed the rabbit-like MiRo.
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