Hey robot fans! The android app and updated iOS apps are now live! Download and play!

P.S.-- Here are some awesome Romo pictures people tweeted/email us!

Hey Romo fam-

We're emailing today because robots are showing up on people’s doorsteps around the world. Huzzah!

The little bots in this batch of 1400 taught our whole team some really important lessons. It's crazy. In 3 months we've gone from a 2 person operation in Seattle with a single demo robot to a 9 person nerdy wolf pack building and shipping thousands of Romos direct from our living room floor in Las Vegas.

One final hurdle: We're still waiting on Apple to approve the app that will let you explore with your new Romo at your side. We've had the app submitted for weeks and hoped it would be approved in time, so we shipped. But as of this morning we're still waiting, and unfortunately this means you're still waiting too.

The robots won’t work properly until the lastest version of the iOS app hits the app store (the Android version will be released at the same time). We’ll let you know personally via email as soon as the Romo app is approved on both app stores and share the link. We hope this will be by the end of the week.

Thank you all so much for your support. You’ve helped us make our dream of building an awesome little robot a reality. The picture below pretty much sums up how we feel right now...

Much love,

The Romotive Nerds

Hey Guys,

Its official, robots are being shipped. We got a few out the door on Saturday and already have 100 boxed and ready to go right now, with more being built and going out this afternoon. The robot factory is kickin’!

And guys, thanks for all the emails of support and encouragement! It really psyched us up. Your robots are on their way!

-Romotive 

Hey Romo Users,

We know you’re anxiously waiting for your robots.

An update: Last week 2000 circuit boards arrived at our workshop in Vegas. We pulled them out and spread them across the living room floor.

It was a big moment, because after all the pre-assembly (200+ hours) we were finally ready to put the Romos together and send them off to their new families – you.

But then we tested the circuit boards, and…no dice.

Circuit boards are essentially Romo’s organs, and unfortunately they’re not working the way they should be. We had to reprogram them.

So we spent all weekend completely re-doing Romo’s firmware, which tells the circuits what to do.

And since we had to re-do everything anyways, we decided to go for broke.

The good news? Your Gen 2 Romos will be way more agile; you’ll be able to move at variable speeds, and have a better driving experience thanks to a nifty new joystick controller interface.

 We know this sucks, and we are really sorry about the delay. We can’t apologize enough.

Feel free to call Zach directly 602-456-9475 or email support@romotive.com. Harangue us or let us know what we can do to make Romo better.

We’ll post here the DAY your Gen 2 Romos start shipping, which will happen in the next 2 weeks.

Thanks again everyone. We can’t tell you how much we appreciate you all being a part of the Romo family.

Love,

Romotive

Here’s a short video from Peter showing you what’s up:

Fellow robot lovers, 

The last time we reached out to you, we had just finished building 100 special edition pre-Christmas robots. Now that those first Romos have found happy homes, we are hard at work on the next batch. This time, we're not building 100, we're building more than 2,000 hand-crafted Romos. Our apartment is literally stuffed full of boxes of wheels, treads, circuit boards, and acrylic. We build robots all day and dream about them all night. 

The common room of our apartment looks like a combination of Wall-E and Terminator 3: Judgement Day. Sometimes there are spontaneous Romo fights. It’s total robot warfare.

We are proud to announce shipment of all Romos (domestic and international) will begin in 2 weeks. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Should I freak out? Do I even have permission to freak out?” The answer is yes, and permission granted.

We'll be posting several updates as the robots start to go out the door, and we can't wait to hear from you all as the robots arrive at your doorstep. For more pictures and information, check out the Romotive blog at www.romotive.com/blog!

Love,

The Romotive Team