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A former physician has launched Robyn, an empathetic AI companion

By Tech Crunch  
   November 13, 2025

Jenny Shao was a practicing physician and was in residency at Harvard. During the pandemic, Shao saw that people in isolation had a neurological impact, and they needed support. This drove her to leave her medical career, the Harvard residency, to launch a startup offering an AI assistant called Robyn.

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