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When Medicine Goes Virtual

a16z Podcast

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Is There a Future for Companion Robots?

The promise of humanoid robots has kind of, you now, fallen short. There's a tremendous amount of therapeutic benefit to having that kind of companion. I think we will see more relaxing of the regulation around like medical devices in the next year or so. And then there's top down regulatory change that's enabling us to respond in a way that's reasonable in light of this kind of crisis.

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