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What you do is pair the simulator with your HEXA and you can give commands such as, move leg #2 forty-five degrees then rotate head 90 degrees at a pace of XX, and so on. With the launch of our product, we’re excited to see all the interesting new Skills that people will be developing.įurthermore, by using our 3D simulator, you can easily create robotics movements piece by piece.
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People can also download more skills from our Skill Store, where developers upload and share their skills for HEXA. Using the HEXA app to remote-control HEXA, you can also see what HEXA sees through the camera pairing. This allows you to do a variety of different movements - walk, crawl through tight spaces, climb stairs, even dance.
You can easily control HEXA using our HEXA app on your mobile phone.
You don’t need to be a programmer to use HEXA. Yes, we built HEXA so that anyone can easily operate it and build on it. We’ve also found that there’s crossover between people who were early adopters of drones and HEXA.īesides this type of tinkerer, are there built-in applications for HEXA in a wider consumer sense, that wouldn’t require any coding ability? Who is HEXA best suited for? It seems that especially in using the MIND software, your target customer is someone with a bit of programming background and a Maker’s mindset?Įxactly correct, for the launch of this first product, it’s more geared towards a techie, innovator, maker audience and other people who want to get involved in robotics. While this is definitely the right approach in the long run, allowing us to have more product control and also bring down costs, building out many of the components ourselves led to technical challenges in product development. By taking this approach, it meant we could better customize things like mechanical structure, servos (the motors), and even operating system to give HEXA specific functionalities and fit our needs. We wanted to build a lot of the components of HEXA ourselves instead of sourcing them from a third party. What are the major technical challenges you’ve faced in developing HEXA? Our aim is that this helps to accelerate advancements in consumer robotics. We provide individuals a tool with which they can create fascinating robotics functionality. Vincross provides the whole ecosystem - software, hardware and community. One of the main reasons that there’s been a lack of progress is because innovators and developers don’t have an accessible robotics platform to experiment and create on. As a society, we’ve yet to realize our vision of truly useful and innovative household robotics. The challenge that Vincross and HEXA confront is that today, innovation in consumer robotics has been slow to take off. What is your elevator pitch for HEXA? How does it stand out from other consumer-oriented household robots? Vincross just finished a promo tour of the US, one of their core markets, where they had HEXA ambling around the New York Stock Exchange and a Wall Street Journal tech event.Īt the height of this buzz, we pulled Vincross COO Andy Xu to ask a few questions about HEXA, how the industry of robotics has so far failed to live up to its promises of future, and why China has an edge on quickly and nimbly prototyping new tech in the field.īig day for HEXA, live onstage at #WSJDLive /T42lVylT1w They’re off to a solid start: their Kickstarter campaign, which ended last month, more than doubled a $100,000 fundraising goal, and attracted more than 400 backers.
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Though it’s aimed initially at a tech-fluent Maker audience, Vincross bills HEXA as a “stepping stone into the fast growing field of robotics,” and their long-term goal is to provide a full ecosystem - software, hardware, and user community - for robotics enthusiasts.
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In a nutshell, HEXA is a fully programmable six-legged robot that can walk, climb, dance, and presumably much more, once its Software Development Kit gets bent and hacked by more users.