Scotty Hoag
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 March 19, 2021 - Embodied Inc - Social Robot for Child Development

Moxie is a robotic companion for children. It can have conversations, play games, tell stories, and teach kids positive life lessons. It's cute and friendly, and acts like a Disney-quality animatronic you can place in your home.

I wrote various games and conversation pattern rules to help Moxie interact in natural ways with people.

Moxie topped Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2020 list for the Artificial Intelligence category and was featured on the cover of the November-December 2020 issue! See the TIME Magazine: Moxie Preview here, and the full TIME Magazine: Best Inventions of 2020 article here.
Time Magazine
                                November 2020 Cover



UPDATE: All good things must come to an end, and the Moxie servers have shut down. Moxie is remembered very fondly by the children that had one. For others, it will be remembered as "That evil Teletubby toy in that MEGAN 2.0 movie." Moxie's shutdown was also talked about on late night TV on Taylor Tomlinson's "After Midnight" show.