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by Andra
Dear Robotic Hacker, We thank you for registering for the first Cloud Robotics Hackathon, being held on March 2nd to March 4th 2012 at multiple locations worldwide. Please read the following e-mail carefully. Participants You must bring: Laptop (or desktop if you want to kick it old school) with WiFi access and (ideally) Bluetooth. Don’t forget your charger! Smartphone (if you …
by Andra
Amazing response to the cloud robotics hackathon! Citrix will keep the space open all weekend for teams to use as a base. Today, Feb 18, is the deadline to register your team for a Rover kit project. After today it’s BYO robots only. Teams are expected to be 4-6 people (no maximum). We will pitch/post …
by Andra
Are you a Bay Area robotics hackathon team or just interested in robot startups? Join us at the Citrix Startup Accelerator for the launch of the Robotics Hackathon. The Robotics Hackathon is sponsored by RobotShop.com and Google. While the main hackathon is taking place in Montreal, the event is open to teams from all over the world. Cloud robotics …
by Andra
There is a great post at VentureBeat about Ahmed Siddiqui’s extensive experience of startup competitions; winning, not winning, and running them. How to win a tech conference startup competition | VentureBeat. .. I have come to the realization that certain types of startup concepts always do well, while others just don’t… The key thing to consider …
by Andra
The NY Times recently connected lean startup methodology with robotics in a great article by Steve Lohr, Dec 5 2011. One example was Stanford engineering graduate Lee Redden’s Blue River Technology, a Sunnyvale robotics company developing a robotic weed killer for organic farms. While Redden’s startup might develop new hardware, these days a lot of the hardware …
by Andra
How many robot businesses can we make in one weekend? JUST ADD ROBOTS to a roomful of entrepreneurs in search of a WINNING STARTUP IDEA! The ROBOT launchpad connects startup and robotics communities. We take the successful startup weekend and boot camp model to launch existing hardware (robots) into new business ideas. As robotics technology becomes …
