Make: Volume 91

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n August, Make: Editor-in-Chief Keith Hammond

and I went down to Silicon Valley and met with

Christoph Kohstall, founder of the humanoid

robotics startup Kind Humanoid. I came away from

the meeting with the idea that we are entering a

new wave of robotics, you might say, robots with AI

for brains.

Kohstall had brought their first prototype,

called Mona, to Maker Faire Bay Area last year,

and it was a spectacular sight: a 6-foot tall robot

without skin protected in a glass case. Mona was

all wires and motors wrapped around orange

3D-printed body parts. I almost didn’t care if it

worked; it was a work of art!

Kind Humanoid says ...