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Whitepaper
Presale: June 18 – June 24 Crowdsale: July 1 – July 31
2018
Version 0.7 01.06.2018
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Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 3
Brief robotics market overview ............................................................................................................ 4
Problem and Solution.......................................................................................................................... 7
1. High cost of humanoid robots .................................................................................................. 7
2. A narrow specialization of service robots .................................................................................. 9
Our vision ........................................................................................................................................ 11
Project description............................................................................................................................ 13
General information ..................................................................................................................... 13
Specifications ............................................................................................................................... 15
Kinematic scheme ......................................................................................................................... 17
Why do we use hydraulics in robot? ............................................................................................... 18
Why do we use a vacuum forming technology? .............................................................................. 19
Competitive analysis ......................................................................................................................... 21
Customer Service Robots ............................................................................................................... 21
Telepresence robots ...................................................................................................................... 23
Robots for home tasks................................................................................................................... 24
Educational robots........................................................................................................................ 25
ICO key terms ................................................................................................................................... 26
ICO phases ................................................................................................................................... 26
Presale ..................................................................................................................................... 26
Crowdsale................................................................................................................................. 26
Issuance and distribution of TAR tokens ......................................................................................... 27
Initial Token Dostribution........................................................................................................... 27
Sale proceed allocation.............................................................................................................. 27
Use of TAR tokens after ICO........................................................................................................... 28
Why the price of the TAR token will grow? ..................................................................................... 29
Marketing model.............................................................................................................................. 32
Roadmap ......................................................................................................................................... 34
Robotar team ................................................................................................................................... 35
Advisors ....................................................................................................................................... 38
Contacts .......................................................................................................................................... 39
Legal Disclaimer ............................................................................................................................... 40
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Introduction
The Robotar company offers you to take part in the ITO (Initial Token
Offering), the purpose of which is to raise funds to finance the development of
the telepresence robot Robotar One, software for it, Robotar ecosystem and
various components for robots. The ITO participants will receive TAR tokens,
which further can be used to buy robotic products and software in the Robotar
Store, and for other purposes.
Robotar company is developing technologies for hydraulic and electric
drives and control technology actuators that will reduce the cost of production of
robots and robotic components. Basing on marketing researches of the robotics
market, we expect a significant increase in demand for household robots in the
coming years, including for the Robotar company's products that will provide
growth in the value of the TAR token on the cryptocurrency market.
Our goal is the development of household robotics in the world and
accelerating progress in the field of robotics by increasing the availability and
expanding the circle of owners and developers of household robots.
"Robotar One" model will be available in the store Robotar Store in 2-4
quarter of 2019, depending on the received funding. It will come bundled with
the basic software functions (functions of the telepresence robot), additional
features (to work offline) will also be available in the store Robotar Store at the
end of 2019. Estimated cost of "Robotar One" model will be $10000.
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Brief robotics market overview
The world market of robotics is growing every year. In 2016, 59,706 service
robots for professional use totaling $ 4.7 billion were manufactured and sold in
the world. in In absolute terms above all is robots for logistics (~ 25,000 units),
military applications (~ 11,000), for commercial spaces (~ 7 thousand), field works
and exoskeletons (~ 6 thousand) are sold. For personal use in 2016, 6.7 million
robots worth $ 2.6 billion were purchased in the world, 4.6 million of them were
robots for household tasks (mostly vacuum cleaners) and for entertainment - 2.1
million (mostly toys).1
Service robots for personal / domestic use. Sales for 2015 and 2016 by regions of production, units
Interest in robotics is supported by investments - there has been a
significant increase in the number of deals to finance robotic startups. More than
120 companies that received investments in 2016 developed robotics for
professional use - mostly unmanned vehicles (ground and air), logistics systems,
medical robotics. The next largest category (45 deals) is robotics for home use,
mostly robot assistants and educational robotics. Among these start-ups, for
example, the Promobot company. Founded in 2013, it sold after 4 years more
than 200 robots around the world and reached a capitalization of 20 mln $.
1 Source: Sberbank CIB
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Number of investment deals with robotics startups
The service sector accounts for about 69% of world GDP. Therefore, it is
logical to assume that service robotics has a more significant growth potential
than industrial robotics. Confirmation of this trend can be considered that the
market of service robotics in terms of growth rates stably exceeds the market of
industrial robotics. Moreover, the main driver of the growth of the industrial
robotics market is China's domestic consumption. After saturation of this market
in the industry of industrial robotics, there is inevitably a second stagnation.
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Expected volume of deliveries and proceeds from sales of robots for customer service in the world
market in 2016-2022.
According to the director of the Center for Intelligent Robotics at Korea
Institute of Technology Kim Mun-Sang, an ideal humanoid robot will be
developed in about 20 years.
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Problem and Solution
Nowadays in the world of service robotics, in our opinion, there are two
main problems that prevent the full implementation of robots into our lives: high
prices of robots and their components, and the lack of universality for a wide
range of tasks. We believe that it is possible to change this situation by creating
new telepresence robots starting with the Robotar One model.
1. High cost of humanoid robots
The humanoid type of robot implies some similarity between the robot and
the person both in appearance and functionality. Most such humanoid robots
have a torso, two legs, two arms, and a certain shaped head. Some of them may
have a face that can show variable expressions.
The human body is a rather complex kinematic system - even in its simplest
implementation there are tens of joints, manipulators for operating objects, some
kind of vehicle (legs, wheels or caterpillars), and all this must somehow fit in a
very limited volume. To operate with each robot joint, you need some drive that
moves it and a drive controller. In humanoid robots like Asimo, for example,
about 50 electric drives are installed, responsible for its movement. The larger the
linear dimensions of the robot - the higher the load on its drives and controllers,
the correspondingly more expensive its components, and the cost of components
grows with the size of the robot is not proportional, but with acceleration. That's
why it's almost impossible to see a humanoid robot taller than 50 cm, made by an
amateur.
At the moment, Maxon Motor's
electric motors and reducers produced
by Harmonic Drive AG have become a
kind of electric drive standard, to
which most robotic companies
developing humanoid robots are
oriented. The price of an average servo
used to control joints starts from $
1000 - and in a humanoid robot they
are usually set from 30 to 50 pieces,
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hence the price of such a robot cannot be less than $ 50,000, which is not
available not only for fans and enthusiasts of robotics but and for most
educational and science institutions. As for service robots designed to work with
people, they have usually installed purely decorative manipulators, with which it
is impossible to operate with any objects.
Boston Dynamics company has gone another way - instead of motors with
gearboxes, they use hydraulic cylinders controlled by servo valves in the drives of
their robots. Hydraulic drives with their skillful use have some advantages over
electric motors: large specific power per unit of volume and mass, high speed,
less wear, greater tolerance to vibration and shock. However, the flow of a liquid
is much more difficult to control than an electric current, besides the servo valves
serving as fluid flow control devices have a very complex construction and are
sometimes much more expensive than
the most expensive servo motors.
There are only a few manufacturers in
the world of servo valves suitable for
use in robotics, among them such
companies as Moog, Star Hydraulic and
Parker Hydraulic - they mainly supply
their products for the aerospace
industry. Because of the high cost of
hydraulic components, suitable for use
in robotics, we do not see any
significant robotic startups, except
Boston Dynamics.
Robotar company has developed innovative Robotar Valve hydraulic
distributors with a dynamically variable orifice, whose production is on the order
of magnitude cheaper than servo valves, while they provide comparable accuracy
and speed. Robotar Valve hydraulic distributors are designed to replace expensive
servo valves in amateur robotics and make robotics available to a large number of
fans and enthusiasts. Robotar One telepresence robot will be a clear
demonstration of the efficiency of the Robotar Valve hydraulic distributors, which
will also be available in the Robotar Store.
Not only the cost of internal components but also the cost of production of
hull parts of robots create a serious contribution to their final cost. Service robots
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designed to work with people are usually designed in such a way that their
appearance is liked by most of the company's customers. This imposes certain
requirements on the design of the body and external components of the robot, as
well as on the materials from which they are made - thus, the cost of production
of hull parts can reach up to half of the cost of production of the entire robot,
which inevitably leads to an increase in its price.
Robotar One is designed in such a way that the production of its body parts
is as simple and unified as possible, but at the same time, the quality for robots
intended for work in public places would be ensured. You could read more about
the choice of technology for the production of body parts in a chapter "Why we
use vacuum forming technology".
2. A narrow specialization of service robots
In order for a robot to become a full-fledged human helper, it must solve a
wide range of tasks - and this requires a large number of management software.
But the efforts of one company or even one institution cannot create software
that covers the whole range of tasks. To do this, it should be a whole community
of programmers and developers who can solve problems together, even living in
different regions of the world.
Currently, advanced
humanoid robots do not go beyond
the research laboratories in which
they are created, and the human-
like robot service functions are
limited to the customer's
requirements and answer only his
narrow business case, thus there is
no prerequisite for the creation of
any large community of developers.
Robotar One is designed to change the current state of affairs. Due to its
many times lower cost, its wide functionality and versatility, it will be widely
distributed in the world and will be available to most enthusiasts and fans of
robotics who can become software developers for it. Robotar One will be
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delivered with a pre-installed ROS (Robot Operating System), a widely used open
source framework in robotics that allows developers to not delve into the physical
nature of sensors and drives, but to work with them at a high level of abstraction,
which will make writing software much easier. The Robotar company will also
create a Robotar Community, where developers and customers will be able to
exchange ideas and solutions for software for robots.
Robotar One is designed in such a way to reproduce the movements of the
person controlling it as accurately as possible - hence, it will be possible to solve
most of the physical problems that person facing every day. Robotar One will also
be able to learn certain actions, repeating them after the person controlling the
robot manipulators in telepresence mode. Thus, the maximum versatility in the
application of the robot for a wide range of household and service tasks is
achieving.
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Our vision
Fiction writers and futurists throughout the 20th century predicted that as early as the beginning of the 21st-century people would be surrounded by robots as they are now surrounded by household appliances and electronic devices, and every person will have his own android robot that will serve as a servant, avatar or even a family member. However, nowadays we see android robots only at trade shows and in research laboratories. Why are robots still not сommonness?
Dmitry Grishin, the founder of the Grishin Robotics venture fund, says that soon we will witness a revolution in robotics - the same that led to the beginning of mass distribution of computers in the 80s of the last century and mobile phones at the beginning of 00's. As far as we know now, the impetus for these revolutions was the radical reduction in the cost of the elemental base and the emergence of value for the broad sections of society. At first, computers were the size of a room and worked only in science and industry applications, but then there were companies that made computers less and cheaper so that they could be used at home and in the office, and the computer industry boom started from that. Ordinary people immediately found them valuable, because the computer accelerated the work at times, and it was possible to play computer games on it. Also, mobile phones, when they appeared, were cumbersome and expensive, and only large businessmen used them - but with cheaper components and faster pace of life, everyone needed their mobile phone. Thus, in order for the revolution in robotics to take place, it is necessary to drastically reduce the price of the component base from which robots are made so that every person could buy a robot. This is the mission of the Robotar company - we are developing robotic components and devices that could reduce the average cost of anthropomorphic robot production by an order of magnitude, or even more.
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Nowadays the value of robotics for the humanity is obvious - robots could replace people with boring, dangerous and low-skilled jobs, thus releasing people's time for higher-level tasks. For ordinary people, the robot can play the role of a toy, companion, nurse, guard, Avatar and many other roles, it can be shifted part of the responsibilities of cleaning the house, caring for people or animals, etc. In order for the robot to be able to work effectively in a human environment, it should be anthropomorphic - i.e. similar to the person. But at the moment advanced android robots do not go beyond the research laboratories, cost millions of dollars and are not sold in the free market. Robotar Company is able to change the current state of affairs - we will create cheap and functional anthropomorphic robots so that everyone can afford to own a robot. At first, it will be robot-avatars, controlled by man, then as the number and quality of software increases, it will be autonomous robots. Robotar Company will create a community of programmers to enable everyone to contribute to the development of robotics. We will also create a store of applications for robots in our production, where anyone can sell the applications he wrote.
Every year human life improves. A simple person has never lived as well as it is now and in the future, it will live even better. Our goal is to accelerate the speed of technological progress of mankind, and the introduction of robotics into the everyday life of people is its key factor. In the not-too-distant future, people will be able to use the transference of consciousness in the cyber body to overcome the flaws of fragile human bodies and radically prolong the lifetime, and we must do the first step on this path now.
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Project description
General information
Robotar is a telepresence robot that is remotely controlled via the Internet using a virtual reality helmet and sensory gloves. The robot repeats the movements of a human operator and transmits the picture from a stereo camera and a sound to the virtual reality helmet, thereby achieving the effect of a presence of an operator in the location of the robot. Also, Robotar can be controlled from a regular computer or laptop, with the help of motion capture tools or without them.
Robotar will also be able to perform some tasks autonomously, without human intervention. As the software base develops, the number of these tasks will increase.
At the moment, the model Robotar One is in development. Estimated date of readiness of the prototype is the 4th quarter of 2018. Robotar One is designed in such a way that its dimensions are as close to a person of medium height and complexion. The robot arms will be driven by ten hydraulic cylinders (1 for each freedom stage), and hydraulic valves with dynamically variable orifice will be used to control their movement. In the wrists of the robot will be installed 26 electric motors (13 in each wrist), which will drive the fingers and palm. In the robot's neck, there will be 2 servos for controlling the inclination and turning of the head. In the torso will be installed hydraulic cylinder, with which it will be possible to change the height of the robot within 20cm. In the cart will be installed 2 motor-wheels, with which the robot can move on a flat surface with a speed of up to 5 km / h. ROS (Robot Operating System) will be installed as an operating system of Robotar One. The hull parts of the robot will be made of ABS plastic by vacuum forming technology.
To demonstrate the capabilities of hydraulic valves with a dynamically variable orifice, we created Proof-Of-Concept, a video with which you can see here.
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Metal frame gives the robot construction necessary strength and stiffness
Hydraulic valves with dynamically variable orifice allow precise adjustment of speed of the manipulators
Hydro lifter allows changing the height of the robot within 20cm if necessary
Robot can be equipped with various gripping devices
Width of 60 cm allows the robot to pass through standard door passes without jamming
Possibility to operate objects up to 1 kg weight with a high accuracy
Ultrasonic sensors will avoid the robot to collide with obstacles
Intelligent weight distribution system will prevent the robot to rollover
Maximal anthropomorphism will provide the human operator to feel in the body of the robot, as in his own
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Specifications
General
Weight ~50 kg
Dimensions Length 65 cm, width 60 cm, height 130-150 cm
Working time without recharging
Up to 8 hours
Pressure in hydraulic system
10 bar nominal, 15 bar maximum
Cart
Clearance 30 mm
Battery 12V 40Ah gel lead
Traveling speed 0-5 km/h
Motor power 2*300w
Sensors Ultrasonic distance sensors, accelerometer, gyroscope, wheel encoders, hydraulic pressure sensors, hydraulic pump speed sensor, electric motors current sensors, course camera, rear view camera
Torso
Degrees of freedom
2 (lifting, rotating around the axle)
Drives Hydraulic cylinder (lifting), electric motor (turn)
Uplift 0-20 cm
Sensors Ultrasonic distance sensors, accelerometer, gyroscope
Head
Degrees of freedom
2 (rotate around the axis and tilt)
Drives Electric motors
Sensors Stereo camera, microphones, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer
Equipment IR-spotlight, flashlight, speaker
Camera resolution
Stereo, 2 * 1280 960, 30 frames/sec
FOV 120 degrees
Hands
Degrees of freedom
5 in each hand
Drives Hydraulic cylinders
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Sensors Accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetic encoder, a pressure sensor for every degree of freedom
Wrists
Degrees of freedom
13 in each wrist
Drives Micro electric motors
Sensors Current sensor, magnetic encoder for each degree of freedom
Robotar One model could be equipped with various robotic grips or wrists
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Kinematic scheme
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Why do we use hydraulics in robot?
Consider this table, which shows generalized advantages and disadvantages
of all possible drives that can be used in robots (the characteristics are given
assuming that all drives produce the same torque in the robot joint):
Drive type Accuracy Speed Weight Volume Cost
Linear electric actuator
High Low Medium Large High
Electric motor with reducer
Medium Medium Medium Large Medium
BLDC motor with harmonic drive reducer
High High High Medium Very high
Pneumatic Low High Small Medium Low
Hydraulic Medium High Medium Small High
The advanced robotics company Boston Dynamics uses hydraulic
distributors and actuators from the aerospace industry in its robots, but their cost
is very high - so the robots in which they are used will most likely never be
available to the general public. We have developed cheap "Robotar Valve"
hydraulic distributors and actuators that allow us to use widely distributed
industrial components to create robots, which will reduce the cost of the robot by
an order of magnitude compared to the world analogs. Thus, by the combination
of characteristics, the hydraulic drive wins in all others for its application in the
domestic robot.
We have produced Proof-of-Concept for testing the Robotar Valve hydraulic
distributors we developed, a video with which you can look on Youtube.
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Why do we use a vacuum forming technology?
Consider the following table, which shows the advantages and disadvantages
of the main production technologies for hull parts:
Technology Capital expenditures
Cost per unit of product
Laboriousness Accuracy Production speed
3D printing Low Medium Medium Medium Low
CNC milling High High Medium High Medium
Composites Medium Medium High Low Low
Injection molding
Very high Very low Low High Very high
Vacuum forming Medium Low Medium Medium High
Capital expenditures. 3D printers with sufficient accuracy of work are now
quite cheap compared to equipment for other technologies. CNC milling requires
CNC machining center, the price for which starts from a 50k$, and a set of tools
for it. For manufacturing technology from composite materials and vacuum
molding, it is necessary to make templates and blanks, and the quality of their
manufacture directly affects the appearance of a product. Injection molding
requires a thermoplastic automatic machine and a mold, which, depending on the
complexity, will cost from 20k$, so it is economically expedient to use this method
only in batches of thousands of products.
Costs per unit of products. Materials for printing on a 3D printer are quite
expensive, but their cost can be compensated for by incomplete filling in the part.
When CNC milling parts are milled from sheets and plates, with most of the
material of the workpiece goes into the shavings. For the manufacture of parts
from composite materials, glass fiber cloth or carbon fiber and an epoxy resin or
other binder is used. When casting under pressure, the plastic granulate is fed
into the thermoplastic automatic machine and almost completely passes into the
finished product, while the cost of the granulate is about 10 times lower than the
cost of the thread for the 3d printers. For vacuum forming sheets of ABS, acrylic
or other plastic are used, a part of the sheet after forming goes into waste.
Laboriousness. For manufacturing of parts from composite materials, glass
fiber cloth or carbon fiber is laid in layers on a blank, after which each layer is
impregnated with epoxy resin or another binder - this is a laborious process
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requiring high qualification. In the process of manufacturing parts by injection
molding, on the contrary, manual labor is almost eliminated.
With the use of 3D printing technologies, CNC milling and composite
materials after manufacturing of each body part, it is necessary to surface
treatment: grinding, priming, painting, varnishing - this causes a high demand for
manual work of highly qualified specialists. When using injection molding, the
parts are immediately obtained with the necessary surface texture, it only needs
to chop the brim and the gates. After the vacuum molding, the part must be cut
from the sheet, after which the edges of the part should be grinded - the surface
usually does not require additional processing.
We are planning to reduce the use of manual labor in the manufacture of
robot parts every year, since the cost of labor, especially highly skilled, is always
growing with time.
Accuracy. Precisionness is not critical in the manufacture of hull parts, but
the more precise the part is, the less effort is required later on to fit and the
better its appearance will subsequently be.
Production speed. When printing a part on a 3D printer, the print speed
depends on the diameter of the nozzle and, accordingly, the thickness of the layer
- however, with increasing thickness of the layer, the time for subsequent manual
finishing of the part also increases. When manufacturing parts by CNC milling, the
processing speed depends on the complexity of the part - the more complex the
shape of the part, the more time is required. When manufacturing parts from
composite materials, it takes time (from 1 to 24 hours) to harden the binder, and
then time for grinding, priming and painting the product is also required. Most
quickly (from a minute to several seconds) the parts are produced by injection
molding in a thermoplastic automatic machine. By the method of vacuum
forming, the parts are also produced quite quickly (from several tens of minutes
to several hours for each part).
On the basis of the set of characteristics, we decided to use the technology
of vacuum molding for the production of hull details at the current stage with the
prospect of transition to injection molding technology.
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Competitive analysis
Robotar One will be able to occupy some segments at once in the service
robotics market:
• Customer Service Robots
• Telepresence robots
• Robots for home tasks
• Educational robots
There are many robotic companies working in each of these segments, but
none of their products combine all these directions. The main competitive
advantages of Robotar One are its high versatility and low price.
Customer Service Robots
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Demand for customer service robots is determined by the following factors:
• strategy of mass personalization of services;
• the cost of human resources;
• the level of digitalization and competition in the customer service market;
• using machine learning and robotics to analyze customer behavior;
• changes in staff functions;
• as well as initiatives to promote robots in the service sector, especially in
Japan and China.
Carefully developed approaches to the robotization of interactive
marketing can significantly improve the level of personalization and quality of
customer service, thereby enhancing the competitive advantage of the brand.
Robots can improve the efficiency of working with clients in banks, shops,
entertainment centers, exhibitions, airports, hotels, government offices and many
other places where the types of interaction with customers are standardized and
repetitive.
Robotar One can be used as a robot-promoter, robot-animator, robot-
butler or robot-concierge both in telepresence and autonomous mode. Robotar
One in the version for use in public places will be using navigation, speech
recognition, face detection, collision avoidance and other systems, necessary to
interact with people. It is also possible to equip with a touch screen, systems for
building 3D maps of the terrain and other equipment.
Prices for customer service robots start from $ 12,000 for the simplest
models and up to hundreds of thousands of dollars for the most advanced. The
advantage of Robotar One among these robots will be a lower price, a wider
range of functions, as well as greater anthropomorphism.
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Telepresence robots
Telepresence robots are used to organize teleconferences, tele-education,
telemedicine needs, and remote monitoring and control. The telepresence robots
market is developing rapidly, and the addition of mobility to telepresence systems
promises to open a wide range of new usage options that will have a significant
impact on cooperation and collaboration opportunities in enterprises, education,
healthcare and consumer markets.
According to Tractica's forecasts, the annual shipments of telepresence
robots will grow from 4200 units in 2015 to 31600 units in 2020, with aggregate
deliveries of nearly 92,000 units over the 5-year forecast period.
The key disadvantage of the competitors of Robotar One in this market is
the absence of manipulators with which the operator of the telepresence robot
could interact with the outside world. The main function of Robotar One is a
telepresence robot, and its distinctive feature is that when using it, a person will
be able to use his hands to control the manipulators and will see the 3D image
from the first person's stereo camera, which will allow him to feel literally
transferred to the body of the robot, and this will inevitably raise the feeling of
telepresence to a new level.
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Robots for home tasks
The category of robots for home tasks combines robotic companions,
robotic nurses, robot-guards, robotic toys and other roles. All these tasks can be
performed by Robotar One both in autonomous mode and in telepresence mode.
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Educational robots
The market of educational robots is growing every year, and the demand
for educational robots is increasing both from educational and scientific
organizations and from private individuals. For example, Aldebaran Robotics in
recent years has sold more than 2,000 NAO robots to schools, research institutes
and universities around the world.
Robotar One can act as an educational tool for pupils and students of
different grades, as well as a telepresence robot for students who want to attend
classes remotely. With the help of Robotar One, educational and scientific
institutions can explore various issues of robotics and the interaction of robots
and people.
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ICO key terms
Robotar token (TAR) will be released on the basis of the Ethereum
blockchain and complies with the ERC20 standard. All purchased tokens will be
moved to the wallets of users in the Ethereum blockchain by a smart contract.
Citizens of the United States, China, South Korea and Singapore cannot
participate in the ICO, but will be able to buy and sell TAR tokens after they enter
the stock exchanges.
Until the end of the ICO all TAR tokens will be frozen.
ICO phases
Presale
Start June 18 00:00 UTC
End June 25 00:00 UTC
Bonus +25% tokens
Accepted cryptocurrencies Only ETH
Token sale rate 1 TAR = 0.001 ETH
Minimal accepting payment 0.001 ETH
Crowdsale
Start July 1 00:00 UTC
End August 1 00:00 UTC
1st week bonus +15% tokens
2nd week bonus +10% tokens
3rd week bonus +5% tokens
Accepted cryptocurrencies Only ETH
Token sale rate 1 TAR = 0.001 ETH
Minimal accepting payment 0.001 ETH
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Issuance and distribution of TAR tokens
Initial Token Dostribution
In the free sale during the ICO will be 50% of the total number of TAR
tokens. 5% of tokens will be paid to bounty program participants after the
completion of the ICO. 25% of tokens will go to the Robotar platform fund and
will be frozen until the opening of the Robotar store. 20% of the tokens will go to
the Robotar project team and will be distributed among the team members after
the development of the Robotar One prototype.
Sale proceed allocation
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Funds collected during the Pre-ICO, for the most part, will be directed to
marketing needs and PR. Funds collected during the ICO will be distributed to
several funds:
• Operational Expenses Fund - funds from this fund will be used to finance
operational expenses of the company (rent of premises, utilities, staff salaries,
purchase of components and materials for production, etc.).
• Infrastructure fund - the funds from this fund will be used to purchase
machines and equipment for production.
• Marketing fund - funds from this fund will be used to advertise and
promote the company's products, incl. for participation in exhibitions, festivals,
competitions, etc.
• Research & Development Fund - the funds from this fund will be directed
to the development and testing of prototypes of products.
• Reserve Fund - funds from this fund will be used for operational purposes,
incl. on the buyout of the TAR token on the crypto-exchanges.
Use of TAR tokens after ICO
TAR tokens is a utility tokens, also acting as discount coupons (providing up
to 100% discount) in the Robotar Store, which will be created in early 2019. TAR
tokens after ICO can be used for the following purposes:
Trading on stock exchanges. TAR tokens after the end of ICO will be added
to several crypto exchanges so that ICO participants and customers can
freely sell and buy them.
Purchase of robots and their components in the online Robotar Store.
Robots and their components can be paid with fiat money, as well as with
crypto-currency and TAR tokens. By TAR tokens, the purchase can be paid
in part or in full, while the products in the Robotar Store will be nominated
in TAR tokens at a discount to its market rate in relation to other types of
means of payment.
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Purchase of software and applications for robots in the application store.
The cost of applications will also be denominated in TAR tokens at a
discount to its market rate relative to other types of payment instruments.
Crowdfunding software for robots. Owners of TAR tokens through a smart
contract will be able to carry out crowdfunding of the process of creating
the necessary software for them in the Robotar Community.
Voting for in-demand software for robots. Owners of TAR tokens through a
smart contract will be able to vote for the claimed software for robots in
the Robotar Community.
Rent of robots and computer time. With the help of TAR tokens, it will be
possible to rent remote Robotar robots to perform any tasks. Also,
operators of telepresence robots can receive payment by TAR tokens
during their work. In the future, it will be possible to pay server time for
servers with TAR tokens for image and voice recognition, neural networks,
etc. tasks that robots may need to perform assigned to them.
Why will the price of the TAR token grow?
TAR tokens will not be issued after the ICO ends - their number will remain
unchanged forever.
The Robotar fund will be frozen until the opening of the online store. Funds
of the team fund will also be frozen until the prototype of the Robotar One model
is ready.
Robotar products in the Robotar Store will be sold at a discount when
buying for TAR tokens, so it will be more profitable for the buyer to pay for
tokens. We are counting on the fact that the demand for Robotar products, which
can be paid with TAR tokens, will grow. Thus, the cost of tokens will also grow.
We pledge to inform the community of TAR token holders about all the
news of the company. Also, at the end of the ICO, part of the collected funds will
go to the reserve fund, funds of which will also be used to maintain the TAR token
rate. Tokens can be bought back after they are released on the exchange.
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Economic model
The main business of the Robotar company is the sale of robots, as well as
components and software for them. The company Robotar currently has no
investors, has not received grants and its activities are fully funded by the
founder. We are open to cooperation proposals.
We develop all components and parts of robots in such a way that their
production is easily scalable and not dependent on external circumstances.
Therefore, we expect that in the coming years we will be able to establish
production and marketing of robotic products in large quantities. In the future,
we plan to maximize the automation of the production of parts and components
of robots, as the cost of manual labor, especially highly skilled, grows every year.
The main source of income for the Robotar company, we expect to make
the sale of products. The price of products will be calculated in such a way that
the cost of materials and components, work, organizational and production costs
does not exceed 2/3 of the selling price of the product, and the profit from the
sale of products will be directed to the development and testing of new product
samples, localization and expansion of production, marketing and other needs for
the development of the company.
Also, to increase the volume of pre-orders, we can resort to crowdfunding.
Depending on the volume of pre-orders, we will hire the necessary number
of employees, purchase or rent the required number of machines (or give the
production of any parts to outsourcing), rent the production area of the desired
footage and create all conditions for the timely manufacture and delivery of
products.
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We expect to achieve the following sales performance indicators in the
coming years:
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Marketing model
The purpose of the marketing campaign is to provide as many pre-orders
as possible, to make the brand recognizable, to create a community of customers,
developers and investors.
The target audience:
• Educational institutions
• Researchers and scientists in the field of robotics
• Software developers
• Robotics fans and enthusiasts
• Startups in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence
• Owners and tenants of hotels, banks, shops, shopping and entertainment
centers and other businesses focused on customer service
Resources for the marketing campaign - 10% of the amount of all proceeds
during the ICO will be spent on marketing. Further, after the start of the online
store, 10% of the company's profits will also be directed to marketing needs.
Geography of the marketing campaign:
• North America (NA);
• Latin America (LA);
• Europe (EU);
• Asia
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Directions of the marketing campaign
1. PR
The goal is to ensure the penetration and recognition of the brand from the target
audience, to attract developers to the Robotar Community.
The way is to share information about the company through social networks,
business and mass media, opinion leaders, participation in exhibitions,
conferences (such as Robotics Expo, CES, Innorobo, etc.), writing articles on
popular Internet portals, distributing videos on Youtube.
• 2. Advertising
The goal - attracting customers to the online store
Channels / Tools:
• CPA networks;
• YouTube;
• Search advertising (Google AdWords, Yandex Direct, etc.);
• Facebook Ad;
• Twitter Ad;
• Reddit Ad;
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Roadmap
Robotar company implements all the points of the road map, regardless of the attracted investments, however, with the lack of financing, the timing of the implementation of certain items of the plan may be delayed.
Beginning of 2010
The emergence of an idea of creating a telepresence robot. Participation in Startup Point in Perm
2013 Development of a prototype of a robot hand on pneumatic muscles. Participation in Robofest 2013 in Moscow
2015 Development of a prototype of a robot torso on pneumatic muscles
End of 2016 Start of development of robot prototype on hydraulic drives April 2018 Making a Proof-of-Concept May 2018 Preparation for ICO
Summer 2018
ICO
Q3 2018 Token adding on the crypto currency exchanges, development of the robot wrist on the electric drive
Q3-Q4 2018 Development of sensor gloves and software for robot control Q1 2019 Completing the development and testing of the prototype
Robotar One Q2 2019 Creating an Online Robotar Online Store and Robotar Community
Q2-Q4 2019 Pre-order production and delivery 2020 Developing advanced versions of the telepresence robot 2021 Development of bipedal robots
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Robotar team
We are a strong team of engineers and designers who have extensive
experience in the design and development of various robotic devices. Starting in
2013, we took part in many different events, festivals, competitions in robotics
and related disciplines. We were participants and helped organize the battle of
the robots "Bitva Robotov" - 2015, 2016, 2017 (the Russian equivalent of "Robot
Wars" and "BattleBots"). Our experience and knowledge allow us to confidently
solve various problems in the field of mechanics, pneumatics, hydraulics,
electronics, programming, etc.
Kirill Androsenko Director
He Has been engaged in robotics since 2010, has extensive experience in the development of hydraulic, pneumatic and electronic systems.
He has the skills of 3d modeling, machine
processing, development of power circuitry.
Alexey Krinitsin Electronics engineer
He Has been engaged in robotics since 2010.
He has extensive experience in the development, testing, debugging and repair of various electronic devices, robots, measuring
instruments and control.
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Alexander Boyarshinov Developer
In the past, he was a participant in the presidential scholarship program for gifted
programmers.
He has a lot of experience programming in C ++, Java, PHP. The creator of many
applications on the Android platform.
Alexander Sidorenko Engineer
A talented designer, maker, specialist in
working with composite materials.
He has 3D modeling skills, working with 3D printers.
Semyon Tarakanov Developer
One of the founders of the Perm Makerspace.
He has extensive experience in the field of developing control and accounting devices, data transmission over a distance. Participated in the development of devices for
smart homes, robots and sensors.
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Nikolay Belonogov Designer
He has been engaged in robotics since 2015. He has extensive experience in designing various robotic devices.
He also conducted research and testing of composite materials.
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Advisors
Alexey Lykov CTO Playkey Alexey is a technical specialist with 20 years of experience. He has extensive experience working with high-loaded systems for telecom operators in the company Enaza. He develops platform solutions of any complexity. Alexey manages a team of more than 30 people, with which parts of the product were written and launched from scratch: the server part, the client part, the architecture, the billing. Author of 3 patents for cloud gaming services. Alexey develops Nvidia solutions in cloud games. Alexey is working on the development of the blockchain system in Playkey for 1.5 years. Manages the infrastructure of more than 1,000 video cards. Developed a unique solution for the mining of cryptocurrency on gaming platforms.
Oleg Kivokurtsev CBDO Promobot Oleg Kivokurtsev - a serial entrepreneur, became one of the founders of the company "Promobot" in 2013. In 2017 the "Promobot" company achieved a capitalization of 20 million dollars. He has been included in the Forbes version top 30 young entrepreneurs of Europe under 30 years.
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Contacts
Our email for general questions: [email protected]
Our email for preorders: [email protected]
Our Vkontakte page
Our Telegram channel
Our Facebook page
Thread on bitcointalk
Our Twitter
Our Youtube channel
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advice, consultation or recommendation, and shall not be relied upon as such by
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actions. Comprehensive terms and conditions of acquisition of TAR token will be
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