Robot Launchpad

Robots in Depth: Andra Keay on opportunities and challenges for startups

Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth 10 Nov 2015

Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this interview, Andra Keay, directo...

Episode 2: Accelerator or Hackerspace?

Andra Keay 19 Oct 2012

Is Robot Launchpad an accelerator or a hackerspace? Both. Right now we’re testing the viability of opening a robot hackerspace. Theoretically, this makes a lot of sense. I believe that the hackerspa...

Episode 1: Robot Launchpad’s lean year

Andra Keay 08 Oct 2012

I thought I’d document our somewhat unusual journey through lean startup methodology and robotics. I founded Robot Launchpad almost a year ago to test the assumption that robotics and lean went toge...

A #botiful evening at Robotics Meetup

Andra Keay 22 Aug 2012

Claire Delauney’s Botiful Kickstarter campaign is in its last hours and as she crosses the funded line, Claire shares with us some of her strategies and insights into running a successful Kickstarte...

Kickstarter and robots – not always #botiful

Andra Keay 14 Aug 2012

SF Bay Area Robotics meetup – August 21 7pm – 8.30pm at Lemnos Labs – is a kickstarter edition. Claire Delauney will share her experience with Botiful, as she reaches the final 12 hours of her K...

Robot Launchpad on Robots Podcast

Andra Keay 26 Jul 2012

Robots Podcast is the place to hear the latest well informed news and views on robotics. I’m honored to have been interviewed about Robot Launchpad for the July 13 2012 podcast. Robots is a non...

Launching startups, with Andra Keay

Podcast team 13 Jul 2012

Link to audio file (40:32)Today we talk with Andra Keay, founder of Robot Launch Pad, robotics startup accelerator based in Silicon Valley, about latest events, lean startup methodology, funding, and ...