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LimX podcast: how RB Labs turned Robert the Robot into a business

How Does a Robot Become a Business?

RB Labs initially set out to build a humanoid robot to promote its own AI businesses. When Robert the Robot gained millions of views online, other companies began to see the commercial potential of interactive humanoids.

In this episode, RB Labs Co-founder Metodi Dimitrov shares how an internal brand experiment grew into an international business, and why, after testing several options over time, RB Labs chose LimX as its robotics platform partner.

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