This Therapeutic Social Robot Can Help Your Mental Health

Jacob Boyle got his start in robotics working at a military startup — but he wanted to help people, not hurt them. So he started MARCo Health to make therapeutic social robots that support people’s mental health. Presented by @verizon.
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[marcotherobot]

It was such a great time filming this with you guys! Thanks for coming to Jersey City and learning about our story.

[stuart]

what happened to this channel? it went from being Dnews, discovery, nowthis, nowthis news, and 5 other names. It went from getting millions of views to now a few thousand.

[alexanderboulton]

Now we don't even NEED real therapists!

[stuart]

This type of stuff needs to stop, these types of technologies need to become illegal, as someone else commented this is like black mirror. This is dystopian and how people think this is good is asinine, this is further seperating mentally ill people from reality which is going to make problems worse. This is not a person who understands your issues, this is a bunch of codes and it just repeats lines based off predicted prompts. This is at best useless and at worse going to worsen the issue.