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Michael Bankowski

Michael Bankowski

Co-Founder & CEO of Prosperous Robotics, a Sioux Falls-based assistive robotics and AI healthcare company building the ROSE caregiver robot; service-disabled Air Force veteran and former financial adviser.

Sep 17, 2026

20:06
So did you then leave the home healthcare business behind and switch completely to robotics? So what I had
20:13
to do is I had to transition to another administrator, another director.
20:21
And because I wanted to keep the home health agency going because it was – great for knowledge it was great to to be you know at the at the the pivot point of where all of this is going yep and being able to add technology and we were doing we we were still doing a lot of unique things within the agency.
20:48
One of the things I created was this community caregiver consultant that basically creating caregivers as creating a career out of being a caregiver.
21:01
Sure.
21:02
And in that structure i was basically turning the agency into an esop okay uh where it was employee owned and it was employee owned by the caregivers okay yep and so there's a lot of uh things that we were still trying and we were expanding we expanded into minnesota which ended up uh being a uh a tough deal.
21:30
Uh, you know, Minnesota is, and a lot of it's coming out now where there's just a lot of fraud and, and a lot of things that, that aren't efficient.

13 MINS LATER

34:32
Or were you just like, nope, this is my life now?

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