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Building Communities Around AI in Africa, with Benjamin Rosman

  14 Sep 2022
Deep Learning Indaba is an organization that empowers and builds communities around Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning across Africa. Benjamin Rosman dives into how Deep Learning Indaba is impacting these communities.

Tertill: A weed whacking robot to patrol your garden

  06 Jul 2017
Update: The response to Tertill’s crowdfunding campaign has amazed and delighted us! Pledges totalling over $250,000 have come from 1000+ backers. We're shipping to all countries, with over a fifth...
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bots_alive, with Bradley Knox

  18 Mar 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Bradley Knox, founder of bots_alive. Knox speaks about an add-on to a Hexbug, a six-legged robotic toy, that makes the bot behave more like a character. They di...

Building character AI through machine learning

  01 Feb 2017
Modern character AI could be better. I’m unaware of any NPCs or electronic toy characters that can sustain an illusion of life over more than an hour. They suffer from predictability, simplicity, a...

QuadBot: The 3D printed crab-bot scuttling beyond its Kickstarter goal

  09 Dec 2016
Robotics is becoming more accessible for many people, but the complexities of legged robots mean they remain beyond the reach of most consumers. The complex mechanics, electronics and code algorithms ...

Root: A robot for all ages to learn coding

  31 Oct 2016
Robohub Crowdfunding Support a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund Root: the coding robot for all ages! Root is a robot, originally developed at Harvard University, that helps anyone from four to ...

Sweep: a low cost LiDAR sensor for smart consumer products

  04 Apr 2016
UPDATE: Only 7 days left to back Sweep! They are now almost 80% funded....

Phiro is a smart robot that lets kids learn to code 5 different ways

  16 Nov 2015
Just like reading, writing and arithmetic, problem solving and innovative thinking are essential 21st century skills our children need. Research shows that one of the most effective ways for kids to l...

Cannybots: Smart toy cars for play and learning

  30 Oct 2015
Cannybots are smart toy cars that introduce kids to programming, 3D-printing, robotics and AI, through play. They can be controlled and programmed from a phone or tablet to drive around, or to pla...

snickerdoodle: A brain for your robot

and   27 Oct 2015
snickerdoodle is a tiny, low-cost, flexible computer for building and controlling connected robots. Unlike other affordable platforms with limited I/O, snickerdoodle provides access to 154 reconfigur...
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Fotokite Phi, with Sergei Lupashin

  04 Sep 2015
Transcript included. In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Sergei Lupashin about Perspective Robotics' tethered flying camera, the Fotokite Phi, which is currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo. Th...

BUDDY goes into final hours of crowdfunding at +500% of goal; announces new US offices

  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...

Jade Robot: Hands on STEM for kids and classrooms

  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

  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...

Thymio goes wireless!

  04 Jun 2015
Thymio is a playful robot designed to help children discover programming, motors, light and motion sensors, and ultimately, logical and inventive thinking - right out of the box. Earlier versions...

iPetCompanion lets you play with your pets via telepresence

  22 May 2015
iPetCompanion have developed telepresence technology that allows you to manipulate toys so you can play with your pets while you're away. The team has installed the system in hospitals and animal sh...

Muribot: Bringing university level robotics to consumers of all abilities

  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...

Ringo: An Arduino-powered robot bug for kids

  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...

GraspIO – An easy way to build electronics using iPhone, iPad & Android

  03 Dec 2014
GraspIO is part hardware and part software, and gives everyone an easy way to build electronics projects using smartphones and tablets. It’s the world’s first DIY electronics platform with easy-to...

Ground Drone Project: Urban mobile robot chassis

  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...

New educational robot helps kids learn coding through music

  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...

Drone startups: Anura pocket drone

  09 Oct 2014
Miniature drones are becoming very popular, and one of the first successful miniature drone designs was The Pocket Drone. A remarkable Kickstarter campaign for this project raised almost $1M, while ...

ScratchDuino DIY magnetic robotics kit on Kickstarter

  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...

Jerry the Bear: A robotic learning coach for kids with type 1 diabetes

and   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]...

Spark Aerial: Your aerial cinematography flight school

  28 Aug 2014
The proliferation of UAVs means that there is a growing number of UAV operators. Sometimes these operators have some experience, but in most of the cases they have none. To make things worse, nowadays...

Edison: A low cost robotics platform

  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...

Robohub launches Indiegogo partner page for crowdfunding robot startups

  07 Jul 2014
Are you planning to crowdfund your robot startup? Need help spreading the word?...

TiddlyBot gives Raspberry Pi robot powers

  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...

Droplets: A low-cost swarm robotics platform for teaching and experimentation

  02 Jun 2014
We have developed a new swarm robotic platform that falls in size, cost and capability between Harvard’s kilobot and the e-Puck. The Droplet is almost spherical, can self-right after being poured ou...

SOLID: A robot recap

  28 May 2014
O’Reilly’s recent SOLID conference, May 21-22 at Fort Mason SF, was all about the intersection of hardware and software, but it also extended and challenged our ideas about what was hardware in a ...

Arduino-powered balancing robot for education, hacking and fun

  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...

Mirobot: An open source WiFi robot for kids

  14 May 2014
Mirobot is a robotics kit that's designed to get kids more interested in technology, engineering and programming. Children solder and build it themselves, and then can use a drag-and-drop programming...

PulsedLight, Project Tango, Occipital and the Prime Sense problem

  24 Mar 2014
Ever since Apple bought Prime Sense, roboticists have been asking what’s going to fill the gap. Robots need to know where they are and what’s around them. The Carmine, and the unveiled but undeliv...

Andra Keay on “What does it take to get from imagination to market?”

  12 Mar 2014
The rise of online crowdfunding platforms over the last decade has created a whole new pathway for some robot startups. In the process, crowdfunding campaigns have helped to catapult hardware and robo...

What does it take to get from imagination to market?

  12 Mar 2014
It's the top-of-mind question for every would-be entrepreneur, and with the Robot Launch 2014 competition deadline coming up on March 30, it's an especially fitting question to pose to our panelists t...

Play-i want to bring a robot to every child

  29 Oct 2013
After receiving a $1million seed fund round from investors like Google Ventures, many of us have been waiting for Play-i to come out of stealth and show us their stuff. Play-i are a Silicon Valley bas...







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