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    Robot Launch 2014: First round favorites
    We had a some amazing entries in Robot Launch 2014 across a wide range of fields, and not all of our favorites made it through to the Top 30. So we’d like to share some highlights of the First Round...
    16 April 2014, by

    Wise birds enter Robot Launch 2014 early
    We were really excited to see so many entries in the first days of Robot Launch 2014. What most people don’t realize is that you can enter the startup competition immediately but still keep updatin...
    26 February 2014, by

    Valery Komissarova on when investing in robots is the right move
    As part of Robohub’s Big Deals series, startup expert Andra Keay asks Valery Komissarova, Grishin Robotics’ Director of Business Development, about what all the recent robotics acquisitions mean t...
    26 February 2014, by and

    Top ten things I learned at Willow Garage
    10. Focus Focus Focus. When I started at Willow Garage, we had two projects (an autonomous car and an autonomous boat) and were planning to grow to 60 people, and I thought we needed to “round out ...
    25 February 2014, by

    Startup Funding, with Jan Westerhues

    Link to audio file (25:51) In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Jan Westerhues, Investment Partner with Robert Bosch Venture Capital, about how they fund robotics companies. As a stepping st...
    24 January 2014, by

    Startup Series #5: Rodney Brooks, Steve Cousins & Pioneers Festival
    Robolution panel at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna. It’s not every day you get to ask pioneering robot startup founders about their journey. The Robolution panel at the Pioneers Festival in Vien...
    10 December 2013, by



    Cubelets are growing up as Moss
    Three years after their successful Cubelets, Modular Robotics launched a new kickstarter today for Moss. It’s like Cubelets just got clever and maybe a little bit more fashionable too. Moss is a dyn...
    07 November 2013, by

    Play-i want to bring a robot to every child
    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...
    29 October 2013, by

    Is drone delivery really a robot startup?
    Australian startup Zookal is making news today with their claims to be the world’s first drone delivery company.  It’s an exciting headline and I wish them well. But while you can quibble over wh...
    14 October 2013, by

    Origami Robots, with Nick Kohut

    Link to audio file (24:09) In this episode Matthew Schroyer speaks with Nick Kohut, CEO of Dash Robotics, about their foldable hexapod robot and the ongoing crowdfunding campaign to get them into the...
    20 September 2013, by

    FounderDating hardware edition
    First crowdfunding, now startup services – hardware is eating the software world. FounderDating launched a hardware vertical on Wednesday, after seeing increasing demand from hardware entrepreneurs ...
    28 August 2013, by

    Dash launching Dragon hardware crowdfunding platform
    Dash is the first product to launch today on Dragon Innovation‘s new hardware crowdfunding site. Dragon Innovation was founded in 2009 by Scott Miller and Herman Pang, ex iRobot and Hasbro. Dragon a...
    08 August 2013, by

    Blabdroid: From Tribeca to Bolt
    Alex Reben’s dissertation robot, Boxie “the needy robot” morphed into Blabdroid, the documentary film about making robots. Blabdroid were the official “robots in residence” at the Tribeca ...
    31 July 2013, by

    Does crowdfunding derisk robotics?
    Crowdfunding is often cited as one of the mechanisms accelerating robot startups, alongside COTS, reduced costs, rapid prototyping, digital manufacturing, smart phones, connectivity etc. The entire pr...
    30 July 2013, by

    Crowdfunding robots: Robot Film Festival
    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...
    27 June 2013, by

    Food delivery drones. But is it a business?
    Food drone delivery ideas are taking off all over the place. But is it a business or just an advertizing stunt? Tacocopter was one of the first although still more of a theory than a practice. Stanfo...
    18 June 2013, by

    Accelerators and opportunities for robotics startups
    New accelerators are opening and existing programs are expanding. It’s an exciting time to be a robotics or hardware startup. In my next post I’ll talk about some of the sorts of startups that inv...
    19 May 2013, by

    Software marketplace, with Celestino Alvarez Martinez and Lucia Fernandez Cossio

    Link to audio file (31:43) In this episode we hear how the Spanish robotic startup Adele is creating a marketplace for robotics software. Through their platform, robot developers can buy software com...
    05 April 2013, by

    Robolution Capital, with Renaud Champion

    Link to audio file (41:13)In this episode Per talks to robotics enthusiast and investment fund manager Renaud Champion. Champion is co-founder of the professional investment fund Robolution Capital, t...
    25 January 2013, by

    Robot startup series #4: Chris Anderson at CES 2013
    Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics, former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED and author of The Long Tail, Free and the newly published Makers, speaks about the new industrial revolution, how easy it is these d...
    11 January 2013, by

    Sphero, with Ian Bernstein

    Link to audio file (25:10)In today’s episode, Per Sjoborg speaks with Ian Bernstein about the hugely successful Sphero robot and the company he co-founded, Orbotix....
    14 December 2012, by

    Robot startup series #3: Elad Inbar & RobotAppStore
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE942o42Ra8 I interviewed Elad Inbar, CEO of the RobotAppStore, just before the announcement that Grishin Robotics was investing $250,000 in this cloud robotics mark...
    11 December 2012, by

    Grishin Robotics invest in RobotAppStore
    For Grishin Robotics, the future is in the clouds....
    10 December 2012, by

    Researching robotics is getting easier
    Complementing Robohub is new app “IEEE Spectrum ROBOTS,” which provides some news but has an extensive detailed section for current-day robots of all types: from exoskeletons to remote presence; f...
    03 December 2012, by

    Robot startup series #2: Bob Christopher
    Bob Christopher was CEO of Ugobe, the company that made Pleo, the robot dinosaur, one of the first successful consumer robotics products. Greg Appelhof is the CEO of TRG, a global retail company speci...
    13 November 2012, by

    Robot startup series #1: Autom and Cory Kidd
    Consumer robotics had a watershed moment just a few days ago, when Autom, the robot weightloss coach, was launched at Dublin Web Summit. I’m very excited to open our Robot Startup Series with an int...
    26 October 2012, by

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