Aubot was one of 26 companies selected to enter Advance Queensland’s Hot Desq program. The program invites startups from outside of Queensland to join and contribute to the the Queensland startup ecosystem for 6 months. We were selected to join the Queensland University of Technology’s Bluebox space.
Here’s the incoming Hot Desq cohort!
For the past 4 months, from 3 April – 31 July, aubot participated in the Remarkable Accelerator program. Remarkable harnesses technology to build social and economic inclusion of people with disability. The Remarkable Accelerator program was created to encourage and foster technology companies in the disability space. It was great to learn from and with other disability technology companies in Australia for the past few months!
Here are some photos from the final demonstration night in Sydney.
Our Teleport Brain Control continues to capture the public’s attention. We filmed a segment with SBS Viceland’s The Feed with our friend Anthony Bartl who has been paralysed from the neck down since he was 6 and in a car accident. He got to see the top floor of his house for the first time!
We also took Anthony and Teleport to the Melbourne War Memorial.
One of our favourite news articles was the one written by the Brisbane Times.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/robot-queen-from-cairns-builds-braincontrolled-teleport-robot-20170116-gtshyf.html
Mashable wrote a great article about Teleport ruining your sick day. Haha, we think the title certainly caught a lot of people’s attention!
http://mashable.com/2017/02/01/teleport-robot-marita-cheng/#xx2SEN.G2Oqs
BBC Click mentioned Teleport in this video segment!
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-38680842/the-telepresence-bot-operated-by-the-mind-and-other-news
(starts at 0:52 in video)
Aubot was profiled in QANTAS magazine as a successful startup. Go aubot!
Marita was awarded an American Australian Next Generation Leader by former American Ambassador to Australia John Berry in New York City. As part of her acceptance speech, the aubot team made a talking robot to interact with Marita. The robot starts talking at 3:30!
The aubot team launched our brain-controlled robot! Here’s a short video we made about it.
After a bit (a lot) of brainstorming, we decided to change the name of our company from 2Mar Robotics to aubot. “au” means ‘to meet’ in Japanese. And aubot is pronounced ‘our’ – ‘bot’. To accompany our inclusive name, we came up with a friendly logo:
We look forward to the company’s next chapter as aubot.