Personal Robots From Valley Startup

Tjeerd writes ""A Silicon Valley start-up is developing a hardware and software development platform for personal-assistant robots, autonomous boats and unmanned cars. The privately funded company, quietly started almost a year ago by eGroups founder and veteran Google architect Scott Hassan, plans to make its robotics software open source. That way, it hopes to draw a community of developers to build applications in these respective fields.""

Comments

Business Strategy - unproven but hopeful

[azuredrake]

It's an interesting strategy outlined in the article - that they're less worried about making money quickly and more worried about making robotics a sustainable sector of the economy means they'll either crash and burn early, or their efforts will single-handedly help to define a new generation of technology. Quite the fun dichotomy. :)

Re:Great start

[Zenaku]

iRobot, the company that brought you the Roomba, makes a robot that cleans gutters.

http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=354