Qbo Robots Now Up for Pre-Order

Yesterday, we showed you a $99 robot research (and fun) platform that you can buy instead of a $400,000 robot research (and fun) platform. There is a middle ground, though, and the newest entrant is also arguably one of the cutest and roundest: it's Qbo, who is now officially available for pre-order. Qbo is, essentially, a bunch of well-designed hardware that's intended to take all the making-a-robot out of the making-a-robot. In that respect, it's similar to the philosophy behind other robot kits: if you buy a Qbo, you don't have to worry about spending a lot of time and money (maybe most of your time and money) building a robot from scratch that does what Qbo can do. Well, that depends on what you want it to do, which in turn depends on what version you want to get and how much you want to spend.