Sunday, 11 January 2015

Mecha Monsters – battling robots that can also teach you how to code

Silas Adekunle and Reach Robotics have come up with Berserker and Brute – for gaming in the real world


When Silas Adekunle started raising money for his Bristol-based startup Reach Robotics, one of his first challenges was to convince people it wasn’t a crazy idea. A student in his final year, he had plans to shake up the consumer robotics industry with gaming robots called Berserker and Brute – the Mecha Monsters.


He received backing from a variety of institutions, including the Arts Council and a funding scheme called React. The University of the West of England, Adekunle’s alma mater, gave him free workspace in their robotics lab, with access to the equipment his small team of engineers need to prototype the robots. Now the company is hoping to raise $100,000 on the crowdfunding website IndieGogo.


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