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Partners

Mobile robotics is poised to go mainstream – we’re banking on that happening with the PC-BOT and we need close-to-our-customer help.

We are actively seeking progressive, visionary, up-scale and leading edge resellers, distributors and curriculum partners to refer our customers to – for purchase, for service, for support and for additional technologies.

White Box Robotics seeks business partners to cover specific geographic areas and specific areas of technology focus – to help us put our limited resources closer to our customers. If you feel you qualify to become a regional distributor, a reseller, an Education/Academic partner or a technology provider please contact us directly at partners@whiteboxrobotics.com

We are already receiving expressions of interest to develop on-robot solutions for a wide range of market applications including:

Research, education, competitions

Interactive teaching for children

In-home security and remote telepresence

Digital Home hub/server or control station

Eldercare

Assistive support services

Entertainment and gaming

RFID asset management and inventory management

On-robot sensor integration – on-robot sensor array design and test

Security & safety monitoring

Alternate battery and power-supply research

Pathfinder application development and test

The PC-BOT is an enabling platform that delivers significant price / performance advantages to education and research:

Academia and R&D

The 914 PC-BOT allows both advanced education and learning institutions to use the same platform for introductory robotics courses right through to advanced robotics research. Our open, industry standard hardware and industry standard software provide a common baseline for review and comparison as well as code sharing.

Development tools in either Microsoft Windows or Linux are available providing a familiar and supportable infrastructure as well as full access and driver software for Microsoft Robotics Studio. The high re-use factor of the PC-BOT means you will never again have to purchase specific robot tools to support a single class plan or specific research project. Instant start-up and on-board industry standard infrastructure using PC-BOT means that all of your research projects and learning exercises can focus on the project rather than the build and support of a platform.

The PC-BOT can make significant contributions to research through applied autonomy and collaboration as well as research into digital life interaction.

Academic bulk-purchase pricing and support is available through us directly or through our reseller network. Please contact us for a reseller near you.

Educators and Students

The PC-BOT resonates with children and students of all ages…

Educators will immediately appreciate the PC-BOT’s affordability, student appeal, ease of use, familiarity and reliability compared to other, potentially cheaper robots. Instead of buying a single massively expensive platform or a number of inexpensive table-top toys for once-off exercises - you can now purchase several PC-BOT’s per class resulting in less time-sharing, more student hands-on time, life-learning longevity and greater depth of learning.

By leveraging existing curriculum, mainstream learning plans and teacher-PC skills, it is now possible to use robots to attract, engage and retain Electronics and Computer Science students. We have had tremendous response to the PC-BOT from 8-18 year olds who see this machine as an integral companion to learning.

The PC-BOT becomes an ideal baseline platform for a new category of robot competitions to further engage students and build community. Each year, White Box Robotics looks to support specific school events and selected qualified teams with machinery and factory support to participate in qualified competitions and events. Contact us directly for details.

School Board bulk-purchase pricing and support is available directly through us or through our reseller network. Please contact us to find a reseller near you.

OEM, VAR or Solutions Partners:

White Box Robotics makes robots designed to fit digital life at the point of human contact. We work extensively with solution partners, business applications providers and systems integrators who need to put legacy data, legacy systems and systems processes into human hands – and we use a working-class robot to do it. The PC-BOT is truly the first intelligent machine for applications and systems developers trying to do complex things at the point of human contact.

If your application needs to relay data, email traffic, messaging alerts, voice, video, music, television, text or processes inside the human digital world – then the PC-BOT may serve you well as an outlier peripheral that is engaging, responsive, companionable and available. All the processing power, networking, telecommunications, processing and data capture and data storage is on-board – delivered in an engaging robotic framework that is based entirely on PC technologies and software.

At White Box Robotics, we work directly with mainstream developers, application designers, systems integrators, deployment projects, technology suppliers and technology watching groups to deliver high impact, high-energy “big iron” projects – and we do it with a robot that can evoke human emotions. Each project we work on is reviewed in depth and we provide engineering support and industrial design support to your management team so that the technology is delivered as seamlessly as possible. We put real working robots into the hands of systems developers who need to work at the point of human contact. If putting a real robot inside your technology infrastructure sounds like it may be a great solution – please contact us directly at partners@whiteboxrobotics.com