 "(Left to right) Prashant Iyengar, Sneh Vaswani and Chintan Raikar with the robot called Miko")
The three men in the room have been trying since 2014 to infuse a seven-inch-tall robot with something that takes human beings a lifetime to learn — emotional intelligence. Their own belief systems may have a less-definite location but these co-founders of a startup named Emotix will soon market a companion droid that has a moral centre. “Let’s put it this way,” says CEO Sneh Vaswani, “the director of the movie may not necessarily be a good actor.”
That is perhaps a line he has used before to explain the fledgling project. Although the Emotix bot is part of the
