A New Era for Robots Driven By Open Source Hardware

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“Xinshanzhai 3: A New Era for Robots Driven By Open Source Hardwrae”

Hosted by: Xindanwei and Xinchejian
Speaker: Dr. Ricky Ye of DFRRobot
Time: 2:30pm-4:30pm 14 Jan 2012
Venue: Xindanwei, Yongjia Rd 50 (close to Shaanxi Rd South)
Fee: 30RMB/person (inlcuding fresh coffee and tea)

Xindanwei and XinCheJian have ran a few Xinshanzhai talks to discuss the open source hardware and open source innovation. We have done two with SeeedStudio and IDEO about a year ago. We are looking to restart this series of talk with DFRobot kicking off the talk again. We have invited the founder of DFRRobot about his experience about how DFRobot gets started, how he get into Arduino/HCR and how open source hardware has help his business.

About DFRobot:

DFRobot was founded on 2007 in Beijing, China. DFRobot is a professional robot technology developer, especially in open source hardware, mobile robot platform, robot sensors. Their first product is the URM37 V3.2 ultrasonic sensor which is now becoming a really popular distance sensor in robotics market. They are now the biggest robotics online shop in China.

They are very active in open-source hardware community such as Arduino. Besides that they are the official Arduino distributor in China, they also had their own brand “DFRduino” which provides the same features but lower cost. DFRduino has a whole range of shields and sensors that can match most education, prototyping, DIY projects and research purpose.

About Dr. Ricky Ye:

CEO & Co-founder of DFRobot. Received his Ph.D. from Nottingham University (UK) in 2007. Involved in several EU core projects as researcher and project manager afterwards. At 2008, he launched an open source robot project called “HCR”, and joined the DFRobot in 2009. He is now focusing on the development of domestic robotics, AI technology and open source hardware.

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