This episode features Susanna Dillenbeck, Commercial Partnerships Manager at Furhat Robotics, a startup based in Sweden, with a mission to enable a revolution in human-computer interaction through social and conversational robotics. Susanna focuses on creating collaborations to help them bring more applications to life on the Furhat platform. Topics explored included: • The meaning of Conversational AI and Social Robotics • The positive impact of Social Robots for businesses and society • The challenges faced with Social Robotics • Gender and Social Robotics • The issue of being emotionally connected to machines • The future of emotion AI • Women in AI challenges • Advice for women in AI coming from a non-technical background Links: • LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanna-dillenbeck • View upcoming events on Conversational AI here: https://www.re-work.co/events/topics/conversational-ai • Read the transcript in full here: https://blog.re-work.co/social-robotics-and-conversational-ai-with-susanna-dillenbeck/