Tag: Misty Robotics
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Misty Comes Alive Today
Misty Robotics Blog – 6.24.20 (6.22.20) Anyone following these pages knows that Misty Robotics has a dream of enabling everyone to be able to solve problems with robots — wrenching the arcane technology world of robots out of the hands of the few thousand capable roboticists, globally, who have historically been called upon to deliver robot solutions…
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Introducing The Misty II Solution Hub
Misty Robotics Blog – 5.1.20 (4.29.20) A little less than three years ago, Misty Robotics emerged from the skunkworks lab at Sphero, became a separate entity, and started pursuing its own unique vision of a robotic future. We outlined that future in one of our very first blog posts, The 10 Year Plan. Full Post: Introducing…
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Nodebots Day: Misty in the House
Misty Robotics Blog – 8.9.19 (8.8.19) Saturday, July 27th was International Nodebots Day, a day to celebrate programming robots with Javascript (for more info about Nodebots, check out http://www.nodebots.io). Because Misty’s first language is Javascript, we thought it’d be an ideal day for us to host a four-hour workshop at Galvanize, one of our favorite developer…
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Who will win the robot “arms” race?
MistyRobotics Blog – 11.8.18 (11.7.18) If we’re ever going to have robots in every home and office, they’re going to have to touch/move/carry things, some of which are going to be delicate/heavy/awkward. That’s a challenge. Our handy human arms and hands have had a bazillion years to evolve and are available as built-in components (no…
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When Developers Are Parents
Misty Robotics Blog – 9.10.18 (9.7.18) So, once upon a time, there was a robot, a huge conference in the great Wisconsin outdoors, more than 1100 professional developers, and over 300 kids. Welcome to THAT Conference. As described on the conference website, THAT Conference is: SUMMER CAMP FOR GEEKS™ Read more: When Developers Are Parents –…
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Farewell Jibo and Kuri
Misty Robotics Blog – 8.13.18 (8.10.18) In the past two months, Mayfield Robotics, makers of Kuri the robot, has shut down sales and operations and Jibo, which has run through more than $70M of venture funding (according to CrunchBase), announced a significant downsizing of the company. Read more: Farewell Jibo and Kuri – MistyRobotics –…
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Looking Past the Unicorn Hunt
Misty Robotics Blog – 7.31.18 (7.29.18) It sounds like such a simple premise: “just build the killer app for robots and you’ll sell a zillion”, but it doesn’t work like that. If I had a dime for every time an investor has said to me over the past 12 months, “you need to build the…
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Programming Robots at DevWeek NYC – MistyRobotics
Misty Robotics Blog – 7.19.18 (7.18.18) We had the great pleasure of sponsoring New York Developer Week this year, not only the event but also the Hackathon, which was the largest Misty has participated at to date. Why do we do Hackathons? We believe in the power of perspective. When we see developers encounter a…
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When Robots Do Surprising Things – MistyRobotics
Misty Robotics Blog – 6.19.18 I’m sure you’ve seen movies based on the premise of robots suddenly doing weird things they weren’t programmed to do. Chaos ensues and everybody leaves the theater worried about the future. Well, robots suddenly behaving in unexpected ways isn’t actually a possibility, right? Read more: When Robots Do Surprising Things