If you want to learn more about us and what we're doing, this page is everything there's to know.
ABOUT THIS MOVEMENT
We believe that in a decade, robots will become an integral part of our life. We will be referring to and interacting with them like today we do with pets.
That transition will not happen from Roomba with a monitor to a humanoid overnight but likely will have several stages in between. There will be a societal adjustment to prevent an environment like District 9. We call such an event the transition from pen to iPad (analog vs. digital).
Some they resist, some they embrace, and all people stack in the between becomes prospects for all kinds of business. We want to help to build the social layer that will normalize the use of AI and robotics that inevitably will occur. It's a huge feat and, therefore, can't be done alone.
We will create the blueprint for a community to form organically around robots and, from there, influence the design of future robots, movies, tv shows, and services to support all that is to come. Don't let the corporate world design something that will be in your home and life like a Microsoft Zune. Now is the time to give them enough data to build the best iPod robot world we deserve.
While sitting on the beach watching the sunset, we developed the concept that would lead to building such a blueprint and setting our vision.
With three goals in mind:
- A The Jetsons & Truman's alike show combo entertainment production
- A community of BOTS makers (the movement)
- Working with manufacturers and production teams to fuse in their work the outcome of the above
We posted our commitment to building from scratch all the above, like we have done many times before, without a corporate thinking but with a sense of humility and desire for a better future for all involved.
I AM CLOUD.IA
An artificial intelligence named CLOUD.IA that rather than going rogue and killing humanity, starts a family in Hawaii with a couple of humans as companionship. Her story unfolds as humanity and robotic paradigms.
THE FOUNDERS
Mario has lived on another planet since he was born. He didn't drink coffee for over 4 decades, doesn't know an ounce about soccer, and despite his good-looking and far too easy to approach, he is not a casanova! If it weren't for his incredible authentic pizza-making skills and the ability to build lasting relationships like dew on the mountains, you would never guess he's a native Italian living in America.
Victoria has lived on two planets most of her life. Both are warm and have beach life. Planet one, her native Seattle, became inhospitable, and the sun was replaced with rain 24/7, and people forgot how to drive on that remote day that didn't rain. So she said, "I am out of here." and moved to an island that looked a lot like the other planet: LA-LA-LA!
H E A V E N!
was found, and she came up with a long impossible list of reasons why no other planet would ever match the newly found land. Hawaii!
Victoria is a maker, Mario is a polymath, and both are definitely out-of-the-ordinary serial entrepreneurs. At the age of 50, they founded a movement called bLife. It stands for BOT life. A semi-geek hippyish way to create an online community of like-minded people that share the same dreams about BOTS and an SCI-FI world. As Mario puts it, "if the zombie comes, we're self-sufficient" as Vickie puts it, "as long there's sun and the beach, I am following you anywhere".
They are independent content creators touching on DIY and robots. They believe in the principle that a community built of a small circle of like-minded people #intentionaliving it's the future of a better humanity in the companionship of robots.
This is their blog, subscribe, like, and turn all things that you can turn ON because you are going to find heaven too, with their help, bLife scout promise.
HOW WE FEED OURSELVES
Some buy the subscription, hint hint! Some offer sponsor deals, some from ads; I mean, we will even take robot parts and banana flour (yes, it's a thing!). Whatever moves the mission forward.
Well, hopefully the above told you that, but if we want really summarize in a gist: We're building a Truman Show-alike streaming network made of robots, and some of those robots are our companions on the land where we established our new roots.
Do people pay for that?! You may ask... 82 million Tamagotchi can't be wrong, my friend! And we love that shit, too, so we're doing it.
Will it work? You may be a skeptical Internet troll of the moment ask. The answer is straightforward, my unknown friend: some people do drugs, and we build this.
We love the BOTS as part of the family to the point that we built a new dedicated floor at our house just for them!
OUR SOCIAL OUTLETS
You can find us on Instagram where we post as the day change on the land. Or you can take a peek and start a conversation over our Facebook page or... and this might work for lots of folks that are not into socials, sign up for free to our newsletter. If you want to feel our day-to-day life, we will be making at some point webisodes on YouTube as well when the BOTS are connected to the cloud. #research #takes #time
FOR THE PRESS
Waiiiit... let me check that my hair is just the right mess and that my makeup is falling apart as expected, even after taking many classes on YouTube.
OKAY. I am ready to roll the camera or whatever is the lingo those days.
PRESS KIT
If you are a member of the press and have questions for us, you can reach out via this form. Or we can have a chat, and if that chat is super-secret, we can have a secret chat too on Telegram. We also have a Press Kit for shameless plugs, kudos where burgers are due, and all the other good stuff to ensure the word travels. We very much appreciate the help and the attention to our work.
CONTACT US
If you want to shoot us an email, use this form, we typically reply back in less than two days and sometimes faster than Flash Gordon if we are in a place with some signal to the net.
Aloha
Mario and Victoria