I’m a 25-year-old founder who loves robots but too many humanoids are militant and creepy-looking. Things need to change—just look at Elon Musk

Grace Brown is the co-founder and CEO of Andromeda Robotics, a deep-tech robotics company behind the emotionally intelligent humanoid robot, Abi. A robotics engineer who built her first robot as a teenager, Grace founded Andromeda with the mission to create empathetic robot companions that meaningfully improve human connection and wellbeing at scale.