In this presentation, Nicholas Beucher, talks about expectations versus reality for social robotics, discusses Product Management for new product paradigms and answers the questions: what is B2B2C & how does it impact product?
18. me robots b2b2c
Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti
(Rossum's Universal Robots)
a 1920 science fiction play by Karel Čapek
robota: “corvée”, “serf labor”, and figuratively
"drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech
“roboti” are created to take care the hard factory
work (post WW1) and rebel against their creators
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Editor's Notes
Thanks for coming
Thanks for hosting
My name and this cool little guy here
Background and how I ended up working on such a cool product
Robots and how it’s a new product paradigm
B2b vs b2c vs b2b2c
Raise your hand if you have questions and please remind me to repeat the question for everybody
Accent
Educational = not engineering
10 years music
Research institute in robotic surgery (da vinci by intuitive surgical in oakland)
4 years at apple running training on Logic Pro X allowing me to have many interactions with PMs
SoftBank Robotics, which is part of the SoftBank group, launched a few robots with the 2 most famous being
NAO on the left who’s dedicated to the academic and research market and
Pepper on the right who’s the product I’m working on.
Pepper is a 4 feet tall humanoid robot designed with b2b2c and retail in mind to transform how people connect and interact with businesses.
What it means is that Pepper engages customers, automates repetitive tasks (so humans don't have to!) and with integration can also be the representation of the online in the brick and mortar.
Let’s talk more about robots
Who Works in robotics here?
Who works in AI
Who works on chatbots?
Engineering definition
18. We’ve grown up with robots in our world. The only difference with other kinds of products is that it was in fiction
A roomba is our version of r2d2
Everybody will have bigger expectations than the ones you can meet
People don’t know what they can have from a robot
Same thing with AI and chatbot
At every level (PMarketing, Communications, meetings with clients in b2b, even internally!) you need to manage expectations
Think baby steps
You need to be proactive in saying my product does A, B and C, and nothing else
Examples of overselling: Watson
Right now Robotics is a lot about engineering, but it needs to be more about design. Exception being autonomous factories or warehouses
For design: Apply theories, challenge best practices. Mobile developers jump on the tablet for pepper. There is way more than that. Same as Iphone fart apps
It’s a new product paradigm
Think PC
Think iPhone
Simplified
You drive your VP towards business
Thinking about a specific industry pain points that you can solve and how to bring them gains
Customization/integrators
Again it’s simplified here
Revenue over time + Loyalty
VP for a specific consumer segment
Less customization