Kambria is a decentralized open innovation platform managed by Kambria International that will foster a collaborative ecosystem, with the goal of dramatically accelerating the development, they plan to adopt most advanced robotic technologies. Their goal is to design and deliver the most capable yet affordable consumer robots at 10x the speed, efficiency, and ease. The founders of KI believe that the Kambria platform will unlock substantial innovation in markets that are primed for technological transformation. Imagine a world where your ill stricken daughter doesn't have to miss out on playing with her grandma 10,000 miles away; where she can be safe alone; a world where she is given automated care around the clock; and where she can be educated by the best teachers in the comfort of her home. Its belived that Kambria Platform can tip the incentives of the game to achieve a much better outcome where everyone is incentivized to share which will greatly accelerate innovation in robotics.
Kambria’s creation was born out of our desire to accelerate this process by engaging a community of developers and tinkerers, providing them with the necessary tools, and connecting them through market demand. the core of the Kambria platform is an open repository comprised of a high-level behavior library and modular hardware and software components for robotics. The repository is designed to maximize reusability and collaboration during development. While the token KI, is incentivizing the Kambria community to reach a paretooptimal state of continual cooperation of investors, companies, contributors, and manufacturers, and users are empowered to collaborate and help the ecosystem grow rapidly. In the Kambria ecosystem, a great amount of ideation, technology, capital, and experience will be amassed and shared. KI believes that keeping the technology and the core platform open will be essential to maintaining the pace of rapid innovation. A unique feature that KI has designed into the innovation token flow that provides game-theoretical incentives. KI introduces the concept of Kambria Karma. Karma is a non-transferrable ledger entry per account that entitles the holding account to share in a bonus of the use fees generated by the Kambria platform. This system is designed to avoid lock-in and maximize the freedom of participants. KDNA encodes comprehensive information so that individuals or companies can go directly to the end suppliers themselves and source and fabricate/assemble all parts. Manufacturers provide time saved, reduced costs from economies of scale, and the ability to then clone or make multiple designs with no more effort than adjusting the number in the order. Furthermore KI will explore opportunities to improve game theory and product interactions with the robotics and crypto communities. Bringing projects and users on-chain, KI has the flexibility to evaluate which approaches create the strongest incentive alignment.
Kambria Karma is not an ERC20 token, but rather a non-tradeable ledger entry for wallet addresses. Kambria Karma is used to track actual work performed. It is also an incentive to promote useful work and is awarded for concrete contributions. Interactions on the platform are facilitated by KAT and Kambria Karma. Its main functions are to enable access to the Kambria Platform, reward participation, and align incentives for all stakeholders in the ecosystem.
The Kambria Platform is built on blockchain. By introducing crypto-economics into the robotics development cycle, the Kambria Platform can be leveraged to reward cooperation and penalize defection to
(1) Achieve a dramatically lower barrier of entry for individuals and small teams to collaborate;
(2) provide economic incentives to contribute;
(3) capitalize on network effects to aggregate compelling technology;
(4) Provide intermediation for the end-to-end robotics business challenges; and
(5) Detect and denounce violations of legal rights to reduce the “free rider” effect.
KI aims that fostering an open collaborative ecosystem, where every contribution can easily be shared, manufactured, and implemented will be revolutionary. Companies can benefit from the collective contribution from the community to build custom applications without having to employ teams of experienced researchers who are very difficult to find and employ. End users can enjoy the higher quality of life afforded by more available tech products and services. KI also believe that a combination of reduced costs, cutting edge technologies, and swift delivery will spur rapid adoption of the Kambria Platform by companies, developers, and manufacturers. This cycle of innovation will pave the way for the next wave of innovations to provide value for people across the world.
Team History
The founders of Kambria had previously started a robotics company called OhmniLabs, Inc. in 2015. It was built upon the premise that to accelerate adoption of robotics in homes, a new type of company was needed. Being far away from home themselves, the founders could relate to the needs for affordable robots that bring families closer. So the founders set out to design robots with modular components and utilize lean, toolless manufacturing. To close the cost gap, they were ultra-focused on iteration speed. Reusability and integration were the cornerstones of our fabrication process, allowing for orders of magnitude less capital spent, and a fraction of the development time. In the short span of just two years, they were able to prototype 10 generations of a telepresence robot. The net result, the Ohmni robot, quickly became one of the leading products in the consumer market at an unmatched price point. Ohmni’s mobility, range, simple controls, and easy access appealed to users of all ages and backgrounds. Using the Ohmni robot, families separated by countries, continents, or oceans could feel the distance fade away. Children confined by their illnesses could still interact with their classmates and teachers. Ohmni was touted by the New York Times as Rosie the Robot from “The Jetsons”vi and CNN reported that “Ohmni robot makes video chats feel like they are in real life.
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