In episode #127 (April 5th, 2013), interviewer Per talks with Celestino Alvarez Martinez and Lucia Fernandez Cossio of Spanish robotic startup Adele. Adele is creating a marketplace for robotics software. Through their platform, robot developers can buy and sell robotic software components, in a practical way. Examples of these software components, which Adele calls sparks, are speech recognition, synthetic speech, vision systems, and user interface components. Their flagship project FIONA (Framework for Interactive-services Over Natural-conversational Agents) allows users to create intelligent and interactive virtual avatars.
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