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Sweep: a low cost LiDAR sensor for smart consumer products
Tyson Messori
04 Apr 2016
UPDATE: Only 7 days left to back Sweep! They are now almost 80% funded....
Nailbot: A ‘nail art’ robot that inspires creativity
Casey Schulz and Pree Walia
17 Nov 2015
Launched last week on Indiegogo, the Nailbot prints instant custom art onto your fingernails from your phone. Behind the concept is a new kind of company -- a movement to inspire confidence in girls a...
Why we need journalism about machine learning
Talking Machines
25 Sep 2015
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Talking Machines is in the process of raising funds to defray the cost of producing our first season and to help us start production on our second season. On the show we’ve talked about h...
Erle-Spider, the Ubuntu drone with legs
Víctor Mayoral Vilches
15 Sep 2015
Erle-Spider is a drone with legs powered by Canonical’s new distribution for robots and IoT devices: Snappy Ubuntu Core. This computer with legs uses the Robot Operating System (ROS), and has been ...
BUDDY goes into final hours of crowdfunding at +500% of goal; announces new US offices
Blue Frog Robotics
04 Sep 2015
BUDDY, the world's first affordable companion robot, has reached a crowdfunding milestone. With just hours to go on the BUDDY crowdfunding project on Indiegogo, backers have contributed over $501,63...
Fotokite Phi GoPro-carrying quadcopter: Friendly, compact, light and affordable
Fotokite
19 Aug 2015
Zurich-based robotics company Perspective Robotics this week unveils Fotokite Phi, their first consumer targeted, affordable, accessible, tethered flying camera. The Fotokite Phi is available now for ...
Tiny 4K Z camera could be the perfect drone partner
Ben Fisher
21 Jul 2015
When we say drone, we ofter think of the flying platform. But that's just half the story. Drones are amazing flying tools because of their ability to position sensing payloads in the sky. Most operato...
MOVI, a standalone speech recognizer shield for Arduino | Kickstarter
Hallie Siegel
16 Jul 2015
MOVI is an offline speech recognizer and voice synthesizer that adds voice control functionality to any Arduino projectSee it on Scoop.it, via Robotics...
BUDDY opensource companion bot meets 100K crowdfunding goal in 1 day; now >200% funded
Blue Frog Robotics
15 Jul 2015
[tweetquote]BUDDY has something to smile about.[/tweetquote] The new open source companion robot by Blue Frog Robotics, launched an Indiegogo campaign on July 7th and sailed past its $100K crowdfu...
Spillikin: a robot love story for our age and a unique campaign
Engineered Arts and Pipeline Theatre
06 Jul 2015
Robotics company Engineered Arts has teamed up with Pipeline Theatre for a new play, Spillikin: a love story between a robot and an elderly woman. The collaborators plan to debut their work at this ye...
Jade Robot: Hands on STEM for kids and classrooms
Myke Predko
18 Jun 2015
The Jade Robot is a fully-developed educational robot designed to engage and excite the next generation of scientists and engineers. It has just completed six months of in-classroom testing with st...
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CyPhy LVL 1 Drone, with Helen Griener
Audrow Nash
12 Jun 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Helen Greiner, CEO and founder of CyPhy Works and co-founder of iRobot, about CyPhy Work’s LVL 1 photography drone. The LVL 1 drone has six propellers that a...
Linkitz: Wearable, code-able toys for girls | Kickstarter
Hallie Siegel
12 May 2015
Linkitz is a new way for girls to explore technology and coding. It's a set of electronic components, or links, that snap together in different combinations to make unique, fun, wearable toys.See it o...
Muribot: Bringing university level robotics to consumers of all abilities
Michael Stone
06 May 2015
Muribot is an affordable, compact robot kit, designed to make coding and robotics easily accessible to people of all ages and skill levels. It packs in quality hardware, usually seen only at universit...
mBot: $49 educational robot for each kid | Kickstarter
Hallie Siegel
08 Apr 2015
ONE ROBOT PER KID. mBot is the easiest educational robot for kids to learn programming, Arduino and robotics.See it on Scoop.it, via Robotics...
Ringo: An Arduino-powered robot bug for kids
Kevin King
13 Mar 2015
Ringo is a friendly pet robot bug based on the Arduino UNO that was inspired and co-designed by my 1st grade daughter Hailey and my 3rd grade son Parker, who are both already writing C code. We star...
ORIGIBOT: An affordable telepresence robotic test platform with arm and gripper
Richard Laboris and Origin Robotics
17 Feb 2015
UPDATE 30/27/15 Thanks to all our supporters - especially our partner, Robohub! We surpassed our funding goal with time to spare! Now with just days remaining, we are hoping to reach our stretch goal...
5 tips on how NOT to run your crowd-funding campaign
Open Bionics
11 Dec 2014
Four successful startups and the president of Robohub have some advice for future crowdfunders. They've been there and offered the perk T-shirt, so listen up....
Ground Drone Project: Urban mobile robot chassis
Phillip Walker
13 Nov 2014
The Ground Drone Project wants to make a [tweetquote]low cost ground robot chassis for hobbyists and inventors that is capable of traversing challenging obstacles[/tweetquote]. The project’s origina...
Maker Club: Learn to code, design and build 3D printed robots!
Maker Club
10 Nov 2014
At Maker Club, we make 3D printed robotics projects that teach electronics, programming and CAD design. Every project is remote controlled using our Arduino-based bluetooth chip, the MakerConnect, and...
New educational robot helps kids learn coding through music
Vivek Mano
04 Nov 2014
Meet Wigl! Wigl is an interactive educational robot with a musical ear. We’ve launched our Indiegogo campaign for Wigl, the first musical robot buddy for kids. Wigl is controlled by musical notes th...
Bionic Bird: A smartphone-controlled flapping-wing device | Indiegogo
John Payne
22 Oct 2014
“Bionic Bird is the fruit of more than 40 years of R&D. In the 1960s, the Van Ruymbeke family created the first successful mechanic bird. Edwin Van Ruymbeke, an aeronautic engineer, has dedi...
ScratchDuino DIY magnetic robotics kit on Kickstarter
Andrey Smirnov
02 Oct 2014
ScratchDuino is a highly customizable, simple and interactive open source robots construction kit based on Arduino. Magnetic mounted parts make the ScratchDuino easy to assemble, and can be programmed...
Jibo campaign ends, takes in almost $2.3M
Hallie Siegel
22 Sep 2014
This weekend we became the #1 Most Successful Technology Campaign on Indiegogo ever when we broke $2.2M! We are both elated and deeply grateful to all our supporters for helping JIBO set a new recor...
HelloSpoon: A fun, affordable mealtime assistant for people with upper limb disabilities
Luis Garcia
22 Sep 2014
Shaped like a baby elephant, HelloSpoon is a robot intended to help children and elderly with upper limb difficulties and special needs to have a fun and happy mealtime. The assistive robot ...
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AirDog, with Edgars Rozentals
Audrow Nash
21 Sep 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Edgars Rozentals, the CEO and Founder of Helico Aerospace Industries. They talk about Helico’s upcoming product ‘AirDog’, which is an autonomo...
Jerry the Bear: A robotic learning coach for kids with type 1 diabetes
Aaron Horowitz and Sproutel
02 Sep 2014
Less than three campaign days left! Back Sproutel’s crowdfunding campaign to [tweetquote]help get robotic healthcare coach Jerry the Bear into the hands of kids with type 1 diabetes. [/tweetquote]...
Edison: A low cost robotics platform
Brenton O’Brien
03 Aug 2014
Edison is a programmable and LEGO-compatible robot that is tackling the high cost of entry level robotics; it has recently launched on Kickstarter, and is available for just $39 AUD ($37 USD) and le...
Drone Startups: Maps Made Easy
Dronologista
30 Jul 2014
Aerial mapping can be quite time-consuming and expensive. Even if you are employing a UAV to do it, it might take hours for all the post-processing, time-stamp shifting and deleting blurred photos. An...
Jibo raises $1M in first week of crowdfunding campaign
Hallie Siegel
23 Jul 2014
On July 15th, Jibo launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo with the goal of raising $100,000 towards developing their new social robot for the home. Less than one week later, Jibo surpassed the ...
Makers of the Jibo set new crowdfunding record | Boston Magazine
Hallie Siegel
23 Jul 2014
Jibo has raised more than $1 million in just six days, making it the most-backed project currently on Indiegogo.
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JIBO: A game changing social robot
Frank Tobe
20 Jul 2014
JIBO, a 2013 Boston startup, launched an IndieGoGo campaign last week and is off to a rousing start, lots of favorable press, and, as of the time of this writing, has raised more than $700,000 over th...
TiddlyBot gives Raspberry Pi robot powers
Harry Gee
04 Jul 2014
The TiddlyBot, which just launched on Kickstarter, has been developed to help young people have fun and learn about robotics and programming. After running a Code Club and workshops using Raspberry P...
Sporobot: Malaria vaccine harvesting robot | Indiegogo
John Payne
02 Jun 2014
See on Scoop.it - Cultibotics“Sanaria developed a malaria vaccine that protected 100% of subjects in a clinical group. Currently we do a key step of the vaccine manufacturing process by hand. To...
Arduino-powered balancing robot for education, hacking and fun
Chris Hakim
23 May 2014
Lil’Bot is an Arduino Uno compatible balancing robot designed as a low-cost teaching vehicle and experimentation platform. Just like an Arduino board, it takes various shields for added functionalit...
TinkerBots set to blow through $100K fundraising goal | Indiegogo
John Payne
15 Apr 2014
See on Scoop.it - Cultibotics“TinkerBots is a toy building set with easy-to-add robotics that make it possible for children and adults to create an endless number of toy robots simply by snappin...
