crowdfunding

This robotic prosthetic hand can be made for just $1000

Joel Gibbard 11 Sep 2013

The Dextrus hand is a robotic hand that can be put together for well under £650 ($1000) and offers much of the functionality of a human hand. Existing prosthetic hands are magnificent devices, capa...

Robohub focus on frontier robotics: High risks, high rewards

Hallie Siegel 27 Jun 2013

Researchers and entrepreneurs are used to weighing the potential risks and rewards of any project they are thinking of putting time and money into. Potential financial investors — be they govern...

Crowdfunding robots: Robot Film Festival

Andra Keay 27 Jun 2013

While I love getting robots in the mail, crowdfunding sites are also good for supporting a whole range of robot related activities. The 3rd annual Robot Film Festival just launched a Kickstarter campa...

Robotic dragonflies take to the sky (with your help)

Mike Hamer 08 Nov 2012

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Robot Dragonfly from TechJect. Developed over four years by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology for the US Air Force, the researchers are now i...

3 reasons to crowdfund a robot

Andra Keay 26 Sep 2012

Kickstarter’s recent decision making it very difficult for hardware projects to use the platform just highlights two very useful things to know about crowdfunding. Firstly, not all crowdfunding plat...

TE+ND Rover Indiegogo campaign

John Payne 27 May 2012

http://youtu.be/UskGhoF8Udc TE+ND (Terrestrial Exploration + Nurture Designed) Rovers are an interactive art project that explore migratory ecology in an era of climate change. The designers are sol...