loneliness

Apps, Security

“Addressing the Social Isolation Crisis: Buffet’s Efforts to Foster Meaningful Connections in the Physical World”

A new app called Buffet is aiming to address the loneliness epidemic by helping users meet new people by quickly matching them with a person and a place to meet up (Think Tinder + OpenTable). Buffet aims to help users meet likeminded individuals, whether they’re looking for a new friend, romantic partner or gym buddy. So we put one foot in front of the other and stared building Buffet.”To get started with Buffet, users enter five of their interests, such as motorcycles, horseback riding or reading. Buffet encourages people to go beyond a chatbox and digital communication and actually meet up in the real world. Hacking believes that if Buffet can win over the average 25-year-old female professional, it can win over anyone.

Dylan Williams
April 10, 2024

Enterprise, Robotics & AI

The Isolation of the Mechanical Android

The loneliness of the robotic humanoid Humanoid robots are all the rage, but Agility’s Digit was a singular presence at this year’s Modex conferencePerhaps a few years from now, the halls of the Georgia World Congress Center will be peppered with humanoid robots the week of Modex. A line of the bipedal robots were moving totes to a nearby conveyor belt at select times throughout the week. This week in Atlanta, a rotating cast of eight Digits are working each day from show opening to close. Agility is ramping up production volumes, with plans to hit “high double-digit” production of its bipedal robot by end of year. This week at Modex, the company took the wraps off Agility Arc, deployment and fleet management software for Digit.