Investment Year

2021

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a.kin provides AI avatars and robots to run your home and advanced reasoning and emotional IQ for NASA.
Rationale

a.kin is developing a whole new evolution of AI. One with advanced reasoning and emotional IQ. It is built by the team who built the core of IBM Watson.

a.kin HOME aim is to use AI to make meaningful improvement in people’s lives. They provide AI-powered virtual helpers to help people run their homes, initially focused on the disability sector which represents 1 billion people globally. Their AI understands human emotion, values and goals allowing their helpers to build deep and trusted personalised relationships, and better support people living with disability.

a.kin LABS multi-million dollar multi-year contract will see it use AI as ‘crew’ for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, to support the advanced manufacture of spacecraft.