MIND KIT Is a Modular Robotics Development Platform Now on Kickstarter

From Vincross, the folks who brought you the HEXA robot, is a new Kickstarter for MIND KIT, a modular robotics development platform that you can use to build that robot that you've always wanted but doesn't exist yet. "A robot that keeps hugging you and won't leave you alone" is either the best thing ever, or a horror movie. Worth the risk, I'd say. It's nice that the system is so modular, and also that it looks like there's a strong emphasis on manipulation, which you don't always get from robotics kits that tend to be primarily mobile bases and not much else out of the box. There's also some built-in functionality, like map-making that works with the mobile base and lidar module. Specs-wise, the brain module contains a quad-core 1.2 GHz processor with 2 GB of RAM and 8 GB of storage.