Gill Pratt, CEO of the Toyota Research Center (TRI), joined TechCrunch’s Managing Editor Matt Burns on stage to chat about TRI’s work in building robots that assist the elderly. Pratt explained that this is a passion of Toyota and addresses a growing need to provided assistance and care to a quick growing segment of the population. Burns later asked Pratt to comment on Elon Musk’s recent call to have the US Government regulation AI saying the technology is the greatest threat to our civilization — a notion not shared by Pratt.