Shen Zhiyuan, a Tsinghua PhD in neural engineering, lost his mother to Alzheimer's disease. In her final moments, she no longer recognized him. Burdened by guilt, he founded Memory Light Studio in Changping, Beijing, using brain-computer interfaces, embodied AI robots, and AI healthcare to help people trapped by their memories reclaim their dignity.
Lin Yinuo, a robot trainer, can teach machines to understand people's hearts, yet fears genuine intimacy with others. Zhou Yanbai, an AI healthcare algorithm expert, carries a heavy burden of guilt after a misdiagnosis. The three young people making their way in Beijing start out with a single workstation in an incubator, facing down corporate plagiarism, ethical doubts, and the limits of technology.
They repair other people's memories, and their own.
The warmth of technology lies in ensuring that every ordinary person is remembered.
