FrodoBots Lab

FrodoBots Lab is a robotics and artificial intelligence company that pioneers crowdsourcing robotics data through gaming and is building at the intersection of crypto, gaming, and embodied AI research. The company has been operating since 2022 and has deployed a global fleet of hundreds of sidewalk robots in over a dozen cities across all six conti... nents, creating the largest open-source real-world driving dataset in the public domain with over 2,000 hours of data. FrodoBots Lab develops robotic gaming experiences where gamers remotely control real-world robots via the internet to complete various challenges, including Earth Rovers, a worldwide scavenger hunt game using sidewalk robots that serves as both a dataset collection initiative and a global testing platform for AI researchers to deploy and test navigation models. The company raised $8 million in total funding, including a $6 million seed round led by Protocol VC with participation from Big Brain Holdings, Fabric Ventures, Solana Ventures, Virtuals Protocol, and others, to launch BitRobot, a Solana-based crypto-incentivized network of subnets for embodied AI research co-developed with Protocol Labs. FrodoBots Lab open-sources much of its work including datasets, hardware designs, and robot control software development kits, collaborating with top research institutions including UC Berkeley, University of Texas Austin, National University of Singapore, and Google DeepMind to advance embodied AI capabilities. The company's mission is to accelerate robotics AI development by incentivizing diverse stakeholders including researchers, developers, and robot manufacturers through gamified data collection, shared resources, and crypto-based reward systems that enable intelligent agents such as robotaxis, robotic arms, and humanoids to interact effectively with the physical world.Read More