Luxonis launches its first open source personal robot

Luxonis, a Colorado-based robotic vision platform, has launched rae, its first "fully-formed and high-powered personal robot". Backed by a Kickstarter campaign to help support its development, rae sets itself apart by offering a multitude of features right out of the box, along with a unique degree of experimental programming potential that far exceeds other consumer robots on the market. The most recent of a long line of Luxonis innovations, rae is designed to make robotics accessible and simple for users of any experience level. Brandon Gilles, CEO of Luxonis, says: "rae is representative of our foremost goal at Luxonis: to make robotics accessible and simple for anyone, not just the tenured engineer with years of programming experience. "A longstanding truth about robotics is that the barrier to entry sometimes feels impossibly high, but it doesn't have to be that way.