The friends we have are more than just the people we interact with.... they may just be a revolutionary companion robot that improves your life! Watch Sneh Vaswani speak about this new technology in India and its implication on our everyday life in the near future. Sneh is Co-Founder and CEO at Emotix; India’s first companion robotics startup. Since 2014, he is leading a global team of engineers, artists and mathematicians focussed on consumer devices that emotionally and adaptively bond with the user’s personality and solve their grave problems. Before KlugTek, he was responsible for end to end realisation of a silicon based device for single stranded DNA manipulation and analysis at Siemens; a breakthrough concept in Next Generation DNA Sequencing. He is an alumni of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay where he did his B.Tech and M.Tech from Metallurgical Engineering and Material Science Department. In the past, he has led multiple strong interdisciplinary teams that have represented and embossed the name of his alma matter and India on several national and international robotic competitions with winning performances. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx