Robot Kits for Education and Entertainment Market Strategy, Market Shares, and Market Forecasts, 2008-2014

Table of Contents

EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT ROBOTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Educational and Entertainment Robot Market Driving Forces
• Educational Robot Market Shares
• Worldwide Robot Kits Market Forecasts

1. EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT ROBOT MARKET DESCRIPTION AND MARKET DYNAMICS

• 1.1 Robot Kits
  • 1.1.1 Modular Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Systems
  • 1.1.2 Design, Development and Standards Track
  • 1.1.3 Tools and Platforms Track
• 1.2 Enabling Technology
  • 1.2.1 Educational Robotics Proliferate
  • 1.2.2 Formal Incorporation Of Robotics Within School Age And University Level Curricula
  • 1.2.3 Personal Computers Provide an Example
  • 1.2.4 Robotics Educational Lifecycle
  • 1.2.5 Educational Robotics Everywhere
• 1.3 Robotics Competitions
  • 1.3.1 FIRST Vex Challenge
  • 1.3.2 Robo-Magellan Robotics Competition
  • 1.3.3 Georgia Tech Scores RoboCup 2007 for Atlanta
  • 1.3.4 Nanogram League
• 1.4 Seizing the Robotics Opportunity
  • 1.4.1 Robotic Kit Enabling Technology
• 1.5 Public Aware That Era Mobile Robotics Has "Arrived"
• 1.6 Market Research Risk Mitigation

2. EDUCATIONAL KIT AND ENTERTAINMENT ROBOTS MARKET SHARES AND FORECASTS

• 2.1 Educational and Entertainment Robot Market Driving Forces
• 2.2 Educational Robot Market Shares
  • 2.2.1 Innovation First / IFIrobotics
  • 2.2.2 First / Vex Robotics
  • 2.2.3 Revell VEXplorer Robotics System
  • 2.2.4 Lego Strategic Positioning
  • 2.2.5 Lego MindStorms Robots
• 2.3 Educational Robot Market Forecasts
  • 2.3.1 Educational Robot Market Dollar Forecasts
  • 2.3.1 Toy Robot Kits
  • 2.3.2 Basic Robot Kits Market Forecasts
  • 2.3.3 BEAM Robot Kits
  • 2.3.4 BEAM Solar Robot Kits
  • 2.3.5 Programmable Robot Kits
  • 2.3.6 Worldwide Educational Programming Robots
  • 2.3.1 Electronics Soldering Robot Kits
  • 2.3.2 Robot Soldering Kits
• 2.4 Humanoid and Entertainment Robot Market Shares
  • 2.4.1 Ugobe' s Pleo dino-bot
  • 2.4.2 WowWee Robopanda™ Playful And Talkative Interactive
  • 2.4.3 WowWee Next Generation Robosapien, the RS Media
  • 2.4.4 Robosapien RS Media In Europe
  • 2.4.5 WowWee Robosapien
  • 2.4.6 Other Humanoid Robots
  • 2.4.7 Toyota Robot That Plays "Pomp And Circumstance" On The Violin 2-26
• 2.5 Humanoid Robot Market Forecasts
  • 2.5.1 User Programmable Robot
• 2.6 Educational, Humanoid, Entertainment, and Toy Robot Kit Market Regional Analysis

3. EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT ROBOT PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

• 3.1 Robotics Design System Starter Kits
• 3.2 First / Vex Robotics
  • 3.2.1 Revell VEXplorer Robotics System
  • 3.2.2 Innovation First / Vex Power Pack
  • 3.2.3 Innovation First / Vex Crystal Upgrade Kit (A or B)
  • 3.2.4 Innovation First / Vex Transmitter and Receiver Kit
  • 3.2.5 Vex Robotics Programming
  • 3.2.6 Vex Hardware and Metal Kit
  • 3.2.7 Vex Gear Kit
  • 3.2.8 Vex Motor Kit
  • 3.2.9 Vex Servo Kit
  • 3.2.10 Vex Wheel Kit
  • 3.2.11 Vex Tank Tread Kit
  • 3.2.12 Vex Sprocket and Chain Kit
  • 3.2.13 Vex Omni Directional Wheel
  • 3.2.14 VexLabs Advanced Gear Kit
  • 3.2.15 Vex Large Omni Directional Wheel Kit
  • 3.2.16 Vex Limit Switch Kit
  • 3.2.17 Vex Light Sensor Kit
  • 3.2.18 Vex Line Tracking Kit
  • 3.2.19 Vex Bumper Switch Kit
  • 3.2.20 Vex Optical Shaft Encoder
  • 3.2.21 Vex Ultrasonic Range Finder
  • 3.2.22 Vex Safety Glasses
• 3.3 Microsoft Robotics Studio
• 3.4 LEGO MindStorms Robots
  • 3.4.1 Lego Mindstorms NXT system
  • 3.4.2 Built-in Rotation Sensor
  • 3.4.3 Lego Alpha Rex
  • 3.4.4 Lego Spike
  • 3.4.5 Lego RoboArm T-56
  • 3.4.6 Lego 3-40
  • 3.4.7 Lego TriBot
  • 3.4.8 LEGO Education
• 3.5 Parallax Complete Robot Kits
  • 3.5.1 Parallax Penguin Robot (Red)
  • 3.5.2 Parallax Boe-Bot Complete Robot
  • 3.5.3 Parallax SumoBot Robot Competition Kit
  • 3.5.4 Parallax Scribbler Robot
  • 3.5.5 Parallax Toddler Full Robot Kit - Blue
  • 3.5.6 Parallax Rogue Robotics Complete Kits
• 3.6 Fischertechnik Complete Robot Kits
• 3.7 M-TRAN Modular Transformer
  • 3.7.1 M-TRAN
  • 3.7.2 M-TRAN System
  • 3.7.3 M-TRAN. Shape shifting (Self-Reconfiguration)
  • 3.7.4 M-TRAN Locomotion Shape Shifting
• 3.8 Mondo-tronics OctoBot Survivor Robot Kit
  • 3.8.1 OctoBot Survivor Robot Kit
• 3.9 SuperDroid
  • 3.9.1 Autonomous All-Terrain Robot Kits
  • 3.9.2 SuperDroid Tamiya Educational Series Robot
  • 3.9.3 SuperDroid Vectoring Robot Kits
  • 3.9.4 SuperDroid Modular Programmable Autonomous Robot Kits
  • 3.9.5 SuperDroid Trekker Programmable Autonomous Robot Kits
  • 3.9.6 SuperDroid GearMotors, Servos, and Wheels
  • 3.9.7 SuperDroid Sensors and LCDs
  • 3.9.8 SuperDroid Wireless Cameras
  • 3.9.9 SuperDroid Jungle Robot Kit
  • 3.9.10 SuperDroid Rockit Robot Kit
  • 3.9.11 SuperDroid Weasel Robot Kit
  • 3.9.12 SuperDroid Robots
  • 3.9.13 SuperDroid Police Robot
• 3.10 OLogic Designs Technology
  • 3.10.1 OLogic Designs Complete Robotic Systems
  • 3.10.2 OLogic IGOR - XYZ The Robot
• 3.11 NeuroSky
  • 3.11.1 NeuroSky ThinkGearTM Module With Dry-Active Sensor
  • 3.11.2 NeuroSky ThinkGearTM Module eSenseTM Algorithm Library
  • 3.11.3 NeuroSky Prototype
• 3.12 Solarbotics B.E.A.M. Robotics
• 3.13 Segway
• 3.14 Ugobe' s Pleo dino-bot
  • 3.14.1 Organic Robotics Technology and Behaviors Breathes Life into Robotics 3-104
• 3.15 Wow Wee Robosapien
  • 3.15.1 Robosapien:
  • 3.15.2 WowWee Robopanda™ Playful And Talkative Interactive
  • 3.15.3 WowWee Roboquad
  • 3.15.4 Wow Wee Robotics
• 3.16 Honda ASIMO
• 3.17 VIA Robotics
  • 3.17.1 VIA Open Systems Robotics Development Platform
• 3.18 Toyota
• 3.19 Hitachi
• 3.20 China' s Third Generation Of Intelligent Robots
  • 3.20.1 Robots Serve Customers In Restaurant
  • 3.20.2 Chinese Robots Can "Wink" And "Draw
• 3.21 1st "Robot Bird" Completed In Qingdao
• 3.22 Robotis / Bioloid Bipedal Robot Construction Kit
  • 3.22.1 Bioloid Motion Editor
  • 3.22.2 Hitec/Robonova-1
• 3.23 HiTec RoboNova-1
• 3.24 TAEJON_D2E Robotics

4. EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT ROBOT TECHNOLOGY

• 4.1 Open Robotic Control Software
  • 4.1.1 PC-Bots
• 4.2 Advanced Robot Technology: Navigation, Mobility, And Manipulation
  • 4.2.1 Robot Intelligence Systems
  • 4.2.2 Real-World, Dynamic Sensing
• 4.3 User-Friendly Interfaces
  • 4.3.1 Tightly-Integrated, Electromechanical Robot Design
• 4.4 Field Based Robotics Iterative Development
  • 4.4.1 Next-Generation Products Leverage Model
  • 4.4.2 Modular Robot Structure And Control
  • 4.4.3 Lattice Architectures
  • 4.4.4 Chain / Tree Architectures
  • 4.4.5 Deterministic Reconfiguration
  • 4.4.6 Stochastic Reconfiguration
  • 4.4.7 Modular Robotic Systems
• 4.5 Autonomous Modular Robotics Used in Space
• 4.6 Telepario
• 4.7 Self-Reproducing Machines
  • 4.7.1 M-TRAN Modular Transformer
• 4.8 Attitude Control In Space By Control Moment Gyros
• 4.9 Lego Brick Construction
• 4.10 Robotics Government Regulations
• 4.11 Segway Mobile Robotic Technology
  • 4.11.1 Segway Brains And The Brawn
• 4.12 Hitachi Configuration Of Robots Using The SuperH Family
• 4.12.1 Hitachi Concept of MMU And Logic Space

5. EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT ROBOT COMPANY PROFILES

• 5.1 Anybots
• 5.2 ComCam
• 5.3 Draganfly Innovations
• 5.4 EH Publishing / Robotics Trends
  • 5.4.1 EH Publishing
• 5.5 Evolution Robotics
• 5.6 Electromechanica
• 5.7 Fischertechnik
• 5.8 Fujitsu
• 5.9 Hitachi
• 5.10 Honda
• 5.11 QinetiQ North America / FosterMiller / Automatika / Applied5- Perception
  • 5.11.1 Foster-Miller
  • 5.11.2 Automatika and Applied Perception
• 5.12 Gostai SAS
• 5.13 Idealab / Evolution Robotics
• 5.14 Innova Holdings / CoroWare
  • 5.14.1 Innova Robotics & Automation / CoroWare
  • 5.14.2 Innova Robotics and Automation
  • 5.14.3 Innova Robotics and Automation Companies
  • 5.14.4 Innova Robotics and Automation Alliances
• 5.15 Innovation First Robotics
  • 5.15.1 Innovation First (RackSolutions) Technical Overview & Capabilities
  • 5.15.2 Innovation First / VexRobotics
  • 5.15.3 VexRobotics
  • 5.15.4 Innovation First
  • 5.15.5 Innovation First / IFIrobotics
  • 5.15.6 Revell-Monogram LLC
  • 5.15.7 VexRobotics
• 5.16 IntelliVision
• 5.17 iRobot
  • 5.17.1 iRobot Strategy
  • 5.17.2 iRobot Strategic Alliances
  • 5.17.3 iRobot and Deere & Company
  • 5.17.4 iRobot and Clorox Company
  • 5.17.5 iRobot Sales and Distribution Channels
  • 5.17.6 iRobot Revenue
  • 5.17.7 iRobot Customer Service and Support
  • 5.17.8 iRobot Marketing and Brand
• 5.18 Lego
  • 5.18.1 LEGO Group Revenue
  • 5.18.2 Lego Strategy
  • 5.18.3 Lego Market And Sales Development
  • 5.18.4 Lego Strategy Three phases
  • 5.18.5 New Generation Of Le Go Robots, Mindstorms Nxt
• 5.19 Microsoft
  • 5.19.1 Microsoft Robotics Studio Provides for Robotics Innovation
  • 5.19.2 Key Features Of Microsoft Robotics Studio Environment
  • 5.19.3 Microsoft Industry Partners
  • 5.19.4 Microsoft Sponsors Carnegie Mellon Center for Innovative Robotics 5-54
  • 5.19.5 Microsoft Robotics Studio / Via Platform
  • 5.19.6 Microsoft Robotics Group
• 5.20 NeuroSky
• 5.21 Object Management Group OMG
  • 5.21.1 Object Management Group Computer Industry Consortium
  • 5.21.2 Object Management Group Technology Transfer Program
• 5.22 OLogic
• 5.23 Optimal Group / WowWee
  • 5.23.1 Optimal Group
  • 5.23.2 Optimal Group Variety Of Businesses
• 5.24 Parallax
• 5.25 Robotics Trends, Inc.
  • 5.25.1 RoboDevelopment Conference Overview
• 5.26 Rogue Robotics
• 5.27 Sensory
• 5.28 SJAutomation
• 5.29 SRI International
• 5.30 SuperDroid Robots Inc.
• 5.31 Systronix
• 5.32 Toyota
• 5.33 Trossen Robotics
• 5.34 Ugobe
• 5.35 VIA Technologies
  • 5.35.1 Via Market Challenge
  • 5.35.2 Via Enabling New Markets
  • 5.35.3 Via Robotics
  • 5.35.4 Via PC-Bots
• 5.36 Selected List of Educational Robotics Distribution Companies
  • 5.36.1 Selected Robotics Initiatives
  • 5.36.2 Selected Electronics and Automotive Vendors With Robotics Programs 5-77
  • 5.36.3 Selected Military ¥ Aerospace Vendors With Robotics Programs
  • 5.36.4 Selected Toys and Entertainment With Robotics Programs
  • 5.36.5 Selected Home Automation With Robotics Programs

List of Tables and Figures

EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT ROBOT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Table ES-1 Robotics Kits, Modules, Parts, and Accessories
• Table ES-2 Modular Robotics Market Driving Forces
• Figure ES-3 Worldwide Educational Robotic Kit Shipments Market Shares, Dollars, 2007
• Figure ES-4 Worldwide Robot Kits Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2008-2014

EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT ROBOT MARKET DESCRIPTION AND MARKET DYNAMICS

• Figure 1-1 Robotics Starter Kit Design System
• Table 1-2 Design, Development and Standards Track Topics
• Table 1-3 Tools and Platforms Track Topics
• Table 1-4 Robotics Technology Elements
• Table 1-5 Robotics Pattern Of Adoption

EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT ROBOT MARKET SHARES AND MARKET FORECASTS

• Table 2-1 Robotics Kits, Modules, Parts, and Accessories
• Table 2-2 Modular Robotics Market Driving Forces
• Figure 2-3 Worldwide Educational Robotic Kit Shipments Market Shares, Dollars, 2007
• Figure 2-4 Worldwide Educational Robotic Kit Shipments Market Shares, Dollars, 2007
• Figure 2-5 Worldwide Educational Robot Market Percent Penetration, Units, 2008-2014
• Figure 2-6 Worldwide Educational Robot Market Penetration Forecasts, Units, 2008-2014
• Figure 2-7 Worldwide Educational Robot Kits Market Forecasts, Units Shipped, 2008-2014
• Figure 2-8 Worldwide Basic Robot Kits Market Forecasts, Units, 2008-2014
• Figure 2-9 Worldwide Robot Kit Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2008-2014
• Figure 2-10 Worldwide Educational Robot Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2008-2014
• Figure 2-11 Worldwide Basic Robot Kits Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2008-2014
• Figure 2-12 Worldwide B.E.A.M. Robot Kits Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2008-2014
• Figure 2-13 Worldwide Educational Programming Robot Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2008-2014
• Figure 2-14 Worldwide Educational Soldering Robot Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2008-2014
• Figure 2-15 Worldwide Humanoid and Entertainment Robot Shipments Market Shares, Dollars, 2007
• Figure 2-16 Worldwide Humanoid and Entertainment Robot Shipments Market Shares, Dollars, 2007
• Table 2-17 Robosapien Features:
• Figure 2-18 Toytoa Violin Playing Robot
• Figure 2-19 Worldwide Humanoid and Entertainment Robot Shipments Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2008-2014
• Figure 2-20 Worldwide Humanoid and Entertainment Robot Shipments Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2008-2014
• Figure 2-21 Educational and Entertainment Robot Shipments Regional Market Segments, Dollars, 2007
• Figure 2-22 Worldwide Humanoid and Entertainment Robot Shipments Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2008-2014
• Table 2-23 Number of Universities

EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT ROBOT PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

• Figure 3-1 Vex Robotics Starter Kit Design System Case
• Figure 3-2 Vex Robotics Design System (Starter Kit) Robotics
• Table 3-3 Vex Robotics Kits, Parts. and Accessories
• Table 3-4 Vex Robotics Kits, Parts and Accessories
• Figure 3-5 Vex Robots
• Table 3-6 Revell VEXplorer Robotics System Engineering Systems
• Figure 3-7 Innovation First / Vex Spycam
• Figure 3-8 Innovation First / Vex Claw Horizontal Or Vertical Mount
• Figure 3-9 Innovation First / Vex Arm Servo Motors
• Figure 3-10 Innovation First / Vex All Terrain Tires -
• Figure 3-11 Innovation First / Vex 6-Channel Hobby-Class Transmitter -
• Figure 3-12 VexLabs - Vex Robotics: 4 Motor, Dual Tank Tread Drive-Train
• Figure 3-13 VexLabs - Vex Robotics Parts & Accessories 4 Motor, Dual Tank Tread Drive-Train
• Table 3-14 Vex Robot Parts
• Table 3-15 Vex Robotics Design System (Starter Kit) - List of Contents
• Table 3-16 Vex Robotics Design System (Starter Kit) - Image of Contents
• Table 3-17 LEGO MindStorms Robot Component Structures
• Table 3-18 LEGO MindStorms Robot Component Functions
• Figure 3-19 Lego Mindstorms NXT system
• Figure 3-20 Lego Robot Built-In Rotation Sensor' s Ability To Measure Distance:
• Table 3-21 Lego Alpha Rex
• Figure 3-22 Lego Alpha Rex
• Figure 3-23 Lego RoboArm T-56
• Table 3-24 Lego TriBot
• Table 3-25 Parallax Product Features
• Table 3-26 Parallax Robots
• Figure 3-27 Parallax Penguin Robot Kit
• Table 3-28 Parallax Penguin Features:
• Table 3-29 Parallax Boe-Bot Robot' s Flexibility Features
• Figure 3-30 Parallax Boe-Bot
• Figure 3-31 Parallax SumoBot Robot Kit
• Figure 3-32 Parallax Robot Kit
• Table 3-33 Parallax SumoBot Robot Kit Design Specifications:
• Figure 3-34 Fischertechnik Bionic Robots Building Set
• Figure 3-35 M-TRAN (Modular Transformer)
• Table 3-36 M-TRAN (Modular Transformer) Shapes
• Table 3-37 M-TRAN System Functions
• Figure 3-38 M-TRAN Two Module Connection Varieties
• Figure 3-39 M-TRAN Lattice Structure and Robotic Motions
• Figure 3-40 M-TRAN. Shape shifting (Self-Reconfiguration)
• Figure 3-41 M-TRAN Locomotion
• Table 3-42 M-TRAN Adaptation To Environmental Changes
• Figure 3-43 Mondo-tronics OctoBot Survivor Robot
• Table 3-44 SuperDroid Robots Custom Engineering And Fabrication
• Figure 3-45 SuperDroid Police Robot
• Figure 3-46 SuperDroid All Terrain
• Figure 3-47 SuperDroid Robots All Terrain Vehicle
• Table 3-48 SuperDroid All Terrain Robot Customizable Functions
• Table 3-49 SuperDroid All Terrain Robot Security Functions
• Figure 3-50 SuperDroid Police Robot
• Figure 3-51 OLogic Designs Robotic Systems Controller
• Figure 3-52 OLogic Designs Robotic Systems Wheel Unit
• Figure 3-53 OLogic Designs Robotic Systems Wheel and Disk
• Table 3-54 OLogic IGOR Features:
• Figure 3-55 OLogic Odyssey
• Table 3-56 OLogic Odyssey Features:
• Figure 3-57 Ologic Flexo Two-Wheeled Balancing Robot
• Table 3-58 Ologic Flexo Two-Wheeled Balancing Robot Features
• Table 3-59 NeuroSky ThinkGearTM Module Characteristics
• Table 3-60 B.E.A.M. Robotics Functions
• Table 3-61 Solarbotics B.E.A.M. Robotics Robots
• Figure 3-62 Segway Personal Transporter-
• Figure 3-63 Ugobe Pleo
• Table 3-64 Ugobe Pleo Features
• Figure 3-65 WowWee Robot Features
• Figure 3-66 WowWee RobosapienV2
• Figure 3-67 WowWee Robopanda
• Table 3-68 WowWee Robopanda Features
• Figure 3-69 WowWee Robopanda Activity Features
• Table 3-70 WowWee Roboquad
• Table 3-71 VIA Robotics Systems:
• Table 3-72 Toyota Motor Violin Robot Performs
• Figure 3-73 Hitachi EMIEW "Excellent Mobility and Interactive Existence as Workmate".
• Figure 3-74 19 DOF Humanoid From Bioloid Kit
• Table 3-75 Software Utilities That Come With The Bioloid kit
• Table 3-76 Commands Provided With The Bioloid Behaviour Control Program
• Table 3-77 Tribotix Behavior Control Program
• Figure 3-78 Hitec/Robonova-1 Sensors
• Figure 3-79 Hitec/Robonova-1 Robot

EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT ROBOT STRATEGY, TECHNOLOGY, AND INDUSTRY SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS

• Figure 4-1 Hitachi Modular Robot Configuration

EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT ROBOT COMPANY PROFILES

• Figure 5-1 iRobot Growth Positioning
• Figure 5-2 iRobot Roomba Positioning
• Figure 5-3 iRobot Roomba Strategy
• Figure 5-4 Parallax Mission