We are very happy to announce the launch of our do-it-yourself community. As a registered forum user you will be able to access the construction plans to build your very own Rover. Click here and register at http://diy.cubotix.com for FREE to get access to the open hardware construction plans.
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GDG Meetup: Introduction to Modern Service Robotics
Join us today for the Google Developer Group Silicon Valley Meetup: “Wearables and other Cool Stuff” at the Google West Campus 2 with an “Introduction to Modern Service Robotics”.
For participants: Build your own Rover! Everybody who participates in this short single page survey (Update: survey is now closed), will get access to the instructions and LEGO Digital Design files to build your very own Rover. Also, we will invite you to join our soon to be launched DIY community.
Rover at Maker Faire
Maker Faire – “The Greatest Show and Tell on Earth” is coming up this weekend on May 17 & 18 in San Mateo, California. This is the original and the biggest Maker Faire of them all and we are very excited to be part of it. Devy and I received an invitation to showcase Rover – our little award-winning, autonomous LEGO robot over the weekend. Come and say hi to Rover in the Expo hall (south).
Robot Block Party in Palo Alto
It is National Robotics Week and Silicon Valley Robotics is hosting the Robot Block Party at WilmerHale in Palo Alto this Wednesday, March 9 from 1pm-4pm. The event is open to the public. Guess who’s coming to the Silicon Valley Robot Block Party – correct: Rover! We are very excited to showcase our little companion among NASA, Bosch RTC, Suitable Technologies, and many other stellar companies and organizations from the Valley. Looking forward to meeting you on Wednesday!
Rover at California Academy of Sciences
Devy, Rover and I had the great pleasure to be invited as presenters for Robot Nightlife at the California Academy Of Sciences – a special event dedicated to robotics. Among stellar robot companies such as Bot & Dolly and Suitable Technologies out of San Francisco and Silicon Valley was our little Rover – the award-winning, autonomous, gesture controlled robot. As Rover moved around and talked up to people passing by, he sure got everybody’s attention. Please see the pictures below for a few impressions of our eventful evening at the California Academy of Sciences.
Devy demonstrates how touch-free gestures affect Rover’s mood
Rover makes new friends at California Academy of Sciences
Devy getting ready to present Rover in front of the lions
Rover makes new friends at California Academy of Sciences
Demonstrating the touch-feedback of Rover
Devy presenting Rover in action
Rover get’s _everyone’s_ attention
In-depth technology conversation
Rover meets Suitable Technologies’ Beam and their founder Scott Hassan
Rover makes new friends at California Academy of Sciences
Rover makes new friends at California Academy of Sciences
Rover also has some funny touch controls
Rover meets fellow Roboticists
Touch-free gestures – try yourself
Demonstrating how touch-free gestures affect Rover’s mood
Rover makes new friends at California Academy of Sciences
Rover meets Romotive’s CEO
Cheese!
Demonstrating touch-free gestures on Rover
Rover makes new friends at California Academy of Sciences
Demonstrating Rover’s touch-free gestures and funny face controls
Rover likes to tell jokes
Rover drives around on the table
Rover meets ArtIsMobilUs
Robot boxing
Origami Robotics
Bot and Dolly’s PixelArt exhibit
Easter Egg painting robot
Party like a Rover at California Academy of Sciences
After several weeks of very exciting trade fair shows around the world, Rover asked for a relaxed robot party with his robotic friends and bros. Rover was invited as a special guest by the California Academy of Sciences in the heart of San Francisco’s beautiful Golden Gate park for their weekly nightlife event. This Thursday March, 27th nightlife is a big robot party and Devy and I are excited to join our little friend to this event. 🙂
Come and say hi to Rover and his big brothers from the Silicon Valley Robotics group and enjoy an evening at the beautiful California Academy of Sciences with its exciting permanent exhibits, large aquarium, astonishing green house, and impressive planetarium.
Robot Nightlife at California Academy of Sciences featuring Rover.
Wrap-up: Rover at Game Developers Conference
Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the annual event “to inform and educate game industry professionals on online multiplayer games, mobile and next generation game technologies”. After its world trip to Mobile World Congress with Intel in Barcelona and to CeBIT in Hanover, Rover arrived back home in San Francisco to show the interested crowds in or around Intel’s booth our vision of smart, next generation technologies for both – work and play.
Below please see for yourself Rover’s impressions of GDC.
Rover makes new friends at GDC.
Rover at Game Developer Conference
Can I hold it? 🙂
Rover gets his own Intel Internet TV interview.
Robot enthusiasts love Rover.
Rover makes new friends at GDC.
Rover’s first person view
Rover on speed – got interviewed a lot
Rover understands touch-free gestures. What?! Yes
Rover understands your gestures!
Rover – what a camera magnet!
Rover makes new friends everywhere.
Rover goes for a roll around the Intel booth…
…and gets stopped by curious spectators.
Rover amazes the crowds.
Rover makes new friends at GDC.
Awesome!
Rover at Game Developers Conference
After two busy weeks at MWC and CeBIT we are back in the Bay Area at work with Intel at this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. If you are attending GDC and want to see Rover in action, please stop by the Intel Perceptual Computing Challenge Winners booth inside the Moscone South Expo hall at the following times:
- Wednesday, March 19th, 10:00 AM to 12 Noon
- Thursday, March 20th, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Friday, March 21st, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Outside of these slots you may still be lucky seeing Rover explore the Expo floor 🙂
Rover at CeBIT
CeBIT is the world’s largest annual IT fair in Hanover, Germany. Being my first CeBIT, I was happy to bring something to show. Once again Rover impressed me, how easily he drew peoples’ attention – young or old, IT pro or consumer. We had plenty of contact with the press, were interviewed by MobileGeeks’ Nicole Scott at Intel’s Bloghütte (watch interview here), by Region Hannover TV, and another european TV station. We talked with authors and editors of several print magazines and made incredibly helpful new friends at Microsoft and SAP. But see for yourself our week at CeBIT 2014 in pictures below.
Rover makes new friends at CeBIT
Rover gets interviewed in the CeBIT TechLounge
MobileGeeks’ Nicole Scott interviews Martin Wojtczyk about Rover – a smart and sensing LEGO self-driving car.
Rover gets interviewed by Region Hannover TV
Rover gets interviewed by Region Hannover TV
Rover befriends Microsoft
Rover makes new friends at Microsoft
Rover makes new friends at CeBIT
Rover starts from pole position at the SAP race track
Rover is welcomed at the SAP race track
Rover is welcomed at the SAP race track
Rover is welcomed at the SAP race track
Rover is welcomed at the SAP race track
Rover meets old and new friends at Intel’s Bloghütte
Rover has a new fan
Rover makes more friends at CeBIT
Rover got noticed by a tank commander
Rover turns heads everywhere
Rover goes for a roll in the CODE_n hall…
Rover makes new friends in the CODE_n startup hall
Rover makes new friends in the CODE_n startup hall
Rover gets interviewed in the CODE_n startup hall
Rover makes new friends in the CODE_n startup hall
Rover makes new friends in the CODE_n startup hall
CeBIT TechLounge Livestream Interview Featuring Rover
What an exciting week at CeBIT 2014 in Hanover! Rover and I had the pleasure to be interviewed by MobileGeeks‘ Nicole Scott for the CeBIT TechLounge livestream hosted in Intel’s Bloghütte. Rover was happy as always and performed well during the interview, but see for yourself in the video below: