Reach Robotics is closing up shop – TechCrunch

Reach Robotics, the company behind the spider-like MekaMon robot you might've seen on the shelves at the Apple Store, is closing down. Billed as the "world's first gaming robot," MekaMon is part video game, part STEM tool. You could plop it down on the carpet and point your phone at it to battle virtual augmented reality enemies, face off against other MekaMon owners in multiplayer battles or build custom programs for the robot on top of Apple's Swift Playgrounds. Here's a video we did on Reach Robotics a few years back: Reach Robotics was founded in 2013. They released their MekaMon robot in November of 2017, just a few months after raising a $7.5 million Series A. The consumer robotics sector is an inherently challenging space – especially for a start-up.