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Ro-Bud - Lovable, Accessible, Autonomous Companion

The Ro-Bud project seeks to create a companion bot that is lovable, accessible to all, and autonomous.

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Challenge: Despite decades of fictional depiction through popular culture, as of 2021, robotic companion bots that even come close to those of popular imagination are not available at scale.

While there have been impressive private for-profit attempts at releasing relatively advanced consumer companion bots, specifically Jibo and Anki Vector, these endeavors ultimately proved commercially unviable, forcing the companies to fold, and effectively removing these wonderfully engineered robots from either availability or full operability (as they were dependent on proprietary services provided by their now-defunct companies).

The Ro-Bud project is an attempt to pick up where Jibo and Ankni left off, and fulfil the dream of providing a consumer robot that is:
1. LOVEABLE - Feels just like a family pet
2. ACCESSIBLE - Can be built by anyone following project instructions with readily available parts with a cost at or under $500
3. AUTONOMOUS - Has it's own goals.



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Ian Maday wrote 09/27/2021 at 03:13 point

Love this! Hope we can collaborate on something some time!

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Scott Monaghan wrote 09/27/2021 at 03:26 point

Thank you!
Oh man I would love to.

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