
Mark Stephen Meadows is President of BOTanic, a company that provides natural language interfaces for conversational avatars, robots, IoT appliances, and connected systems. He is the author of “We Robot,” “I Avatar,” and other books.
Mark Stephen Meadows is an author, inventor and designer. With more than two decades' experience in virtual reality and artificial intelligence he began working with robotics and natural language interface in 2009. He is the author of "We, Robot” and other books that examine media, technology, and their cultural impact. He is also the author of six patents in related fields. Helping to build the third dot-com webserver (well.com, in 1993) Meadows went on to found his first company, Construct, in 1995. In the following years Meadows worked at Xerox-PARC, Stanford Research Institute, the Waag (among other research centers), government associations in Holland and Australia, and traveled extensively lecturing on this work. He is the President of BOTanic (formerly Geppetto Labs), which he founded in 2012. He lives in San Francisco on his sailboat.
Recent posts:
- Virtual assistants are the testbeds for tomorrow’s personal robots
- Why Google’s robot personality patent isn’t what it appears to be
- While most robots are either geek or jock, CHAPPiE is a lesson in sexy
- Natural language: The de-facto interface convention for social robotics
- Amazon’s Echo: A point-of-sale even the kids can relate to
- Nursing Grandma with a robot
- If your avatar could talk, what would it say?
- On Pepper, Aldebaran and emotional robotics: Interview with Bruno Maisonnier
- Is surveillance the new business model for consumer robotics?
- Mark Stephen Meadows on “What does it take to get from imagination to market?”
- Putting the IV into Intelligent Virtual Assistants
- Mark Stephen Meadows on “What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and Amazon investing in robotics?”
- Robot love: Spike Jonze’s new sci-fi film ‘Her’ may be closer to reality than you think
- Mark Stephen Meadows on “If you could enhance yourself with some robotic accessory or implant, what would it be?”
- Two ears, one mouth (or, Somatic analytics, and a talk with Dr. Skip Rizzo)
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