Colin Angle

CEO and co-founder of Familiar Machines & Magic (@familiarmxm)
Former CEO and co-founder of iRobot

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8/ Hence “Familiar Machines & Magic

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1/ Here’s how Chris Jones, Ira Renfrew, Morgan Pope, Becky Mongillo, and I landed on the name “Familiar Machines & Magic.”

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7/ And the magic is what we get to experience as we build and interact with this new form of technology.

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3/ We’re grateful to partner with @nvidia and to use their Jetson Orin Nano to run #Familiars on the edge, helping us create user experiences that are highly responsive, safe, and private.

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1/ Proud to see our Familiar on stage today at #GTCTaipei during Jensen Huang's keynote. Hard to miss us amidst the sea of humanoids 🙂

#COMPUTEX2026 #NVIDIAGTC

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2/ Familiars are designed for a different frontier of robotics: not the factory floor, but the home.

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5/ That’s what we’re building at Familiar Machines & Magic: Physical AI designed for human connection. https://t.co/zrUTfTIOzM

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1/ Here's how I've come to think about the #PhysicalAI category.

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4/ A robot that interacts with people has to read the room, adjust its behavior, and earn trust through thousands of small interactions. That requires emotional intelligence and designing for trust from day one, including thoughtful decisions on form factor, the way it moves, what it perceives, and what it remembers.

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6/ Listen to the full conversation here:
YouTube: https://t.co/jqShBiw3ih
Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/0o9SwQlW2N
Spotify: https://t.co/gRIuX9Nb9c

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1/ The dream of home robots has been around for decades.

But the reality has been much harder.

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5/ The next generation of home robots won’t succeed because they look impressive in a demo.

They’ll succeed because they understand the home, earn trust, and make everyday life better.