A tale of two crowdfunding ventures
In the middle of July, two local entrepreneurs launched “crowdfunding” campaigns two days apart. They were seeking enough preorders from customers to help them start making new products. One was a...
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Robotics startup Jibo raises $25 million, brings on Nuance exec as CEO
Steve Chambers says he first heard about the “social robotics” startup Jibo in late 2013, when two friends mentioned the startup to him within two hours on the same day. At the time, Chambers was...
View ArticleAll-star MIT women entrepreneurs pave the way for gender balance in tech
On Thursday night MIT held its first Women in Innovation and Entrepreneurship networking reception in the sparse and modern Gagosian-like gallery space of the MIT Media Lab. The event was organized and...
View ArticleMIT’s zipper robots could dress you — if you let them
This is a robot that has an eye for style. In a video released this month, a group at MIT’s Media Lab demonstrated how a group of tiny robots can track the rails of a zipper and seal you into your...
View ArticleGame Changers 2015: Jibo the social robot
Now that we are all comfortable talking to artificial personas on our smartphones — “Siri, who are the Sox playing tonight?” — Cynthia Breazeal thinks we’re ready for a robot companion that lives on...
View ArticleMore investment cash for Jibo, a personal robot shipping later this year
Jibo, a Boston startup developing small robots for home entertainment, continues piling up cash as it pushes to ship its first products later this year. The latest investment, totaling $11 million,...
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Massachusetts emerges as a robot industry powerhouse
Seventeen years ago, Helen Greiner was scrambling to find investors to back her company’s development of a robot that would clean people’s houses. As she made the rounds of venture capitalists, the...
View ArticleJibo’s back! Cynthia Breazeal’s social robot is on sale again at Indiegogo
They say third time’s a charm, but this robot needs no help. After smashing through its funding goal on Indiegogo last summer, and raking in a cool $2 million in an extended round, the chatty...
View ArticleHow to launch a robotics startup in 2015
An all-star panel of researchers-turned-entrepreneurs shared their career highs and lows with local robotics researchers Monday at the closing sessions of a symposium hosted by the Wyss Institute at...
View ArticleJibo hires team behind kids media company CloudKid
Boston robotics startup Jibo caught the imagination of the press and public last year when its creators claimed its chatty social robot, at once a companion and entertainer, could one day be reading...
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