Update Dec 17th, 2014***
Posted Our Teaser Video 

Meet Mia

We've spent months designing and perfecting a service robot that would be useful, strong, personable and last a long time without service and maintenance.  Mia is the culmination of years of Cognitive Scripting (Artificial Intelligence), open source software development, research and planning.  We took months studying the market, buying robots, building robots, testing, using and playing with them, even marveling at work that has been done by other companies and hobbyists alike.  We've solved many of the problems keeping robots from reaching the public on a large commercial scale including affordable pricing. 

No Programming Required!

We developed Mia to be extremely easy to use, right out of the box.  She comes completely setup and already understands hundreds of commands and recognizes thousands of objects.  There's no programming needed to help Mia learn new actions.  Mia tells you when she doesn't know how to do something and asks you to show her how.  You simply use your smartphone as a remote control to "show" Mia how to perform an action.  Once you create an action you save it directly on Mia's onboard Quad Core computer and tell Mia what command will run the action the next time.   That's all.  You can also upload and sell Actions in the Mia Action Store (ready in February 2015). Let's see who can make the best Mia - "History of Dance" Action.

Building A Useful Robot.

We believe that we've created something special in Mia.  Mia offers many outstanding features and functionality at an incredibly low price compared to all of the other robots that we've purchased, programmed and tested as we found that some robots were useful, others were entertaining, but none of them were easy to use.  

During our extensive research we quickly learned the drawbacks of owning or building any robot and went directly to work on solving the main problems facing the industry and keeping robots from making it to market in a big way.  Aside from Mia being extremely customizable and easy to operate, we knew she had to be at minimum, capable of easily learning and performing tasks that would deem her a useful addition to any family or business.

To be able to design and build a low cost, fully functional, easy to use robot for the masses we brought on some extremely talented hardware technical experts who have over 15 years of experience in hardware and motor system design and control to the Mia project.  We discovered that having 10 servos and an intense controller board just for her hands would increase costs substantially so we first worked on removing every unnecessary motor, servo and controller board from Mia giving her gloves and a gear driven flexible thumb instead of multiple fingers drawn by strings. This instantly offered Mia the ability to hold heavier objects. Of course Mia cannot play an acoustic piano, but she has no problem running a midi file to control an entire orchestra on a digital piano.   We also focused on how we could reuse the same strong motors and gears over and over, allowing us to order more of the same components and reduce Mia's overall production cost. Both of Mia’s shoulders and elbows and her hips use the same gears and the same size motors and same type of rotors further increasing simplicity in design and reducing costs. 

We then went to work on Mia’s brain. We contemplated using numerous operating systems but in order to keep licensing fees from seeping into the cost of building and distributing a useful robot, we opted to use MyRobotLab's fully open source robotic operating system which already contained hundreds of plugins to help Mia achieve all the tasks we wanted her to achieve in operating motors, controlling lights, recognizing and tracking objects, learning her environment and autonomous conversation.  All that was left was adding the Impervio Technologies Cognitive Scripting engine (Artificial Intelligence software) and a remote controller application to allow users to program custom actions for Mia to perform in their own environment. 

Cognitive Scripting allows an easy method for a user to teach Mia new tasks compared with most other Robots requiring to program a robot to perform each new task. In other words you don’t have to be a software programmer to own and teach Mia new tasks. We have designed a very simple and easy method for you or any average person to communicate with Mia which includes just talking to her.

What Mia Can Do For You?

Here's The Deal!

Right now we're in the production process. We need your help to get past this point.  We think Mia could be the most incredible product on the market today, but even great ideas have failed because no one wanted them or they cost too much.  We've done everything in our power to make Mia high quality, low cost and easy to use, now it's your turn.  In order for us to prove to the world that this is something that the public wants we are offering Mia for a specially discounted Pre-Order Sale Price, giving you the opportunity to help prove us right.  

We need a minimum of $250,000 USD in funding to be able to build and bring a low cost, fully functional, easy to use robot to the world market in order to help make people’s lives easier and more enjoyable.

If we reach our goal, all of the funds raised will be spent on building and delivering Mia, the world’s first affordable, full service robot.

We are offering many unique perks including owning your own Mia!

Please help us achieve our goal and support the Mia Project as it will truly make the world a better place!

We need 90 sales of Mia in 45 days to keep this project alive.

• Looking to raise 250,000 USD Dollars for mass production and delivery of 90 Mia's.
• Anyone who doesn't order a Mia, will be entered into a draw to win a full version Mia with optional solar panels and wireless keyboard/touchpad. For every 1000 supporters who come on board,  we will draw from the names of all the supporters.   The earlier you support our project the more draws you are entered into.
• Delivery of any Mia Robots ordered are expected to be delivered by July 15th, 2015
• Anyone pre-ordering a Mia Robot before December 24th 2015 will receive their ownership certificate and proof of payment along with the special Mia Holiday Gift Card.

The Impact

We need your support as every bit helps to get this dream to come to life. We hope one day that service robots can be an integral part of everyone's life.  We hope you share that dream and hope you want to make this happen.  We would be very grateful for your support.

Mia helps make a better life for her owners as she can be used to help in so many ways in hospitals to deliver medication, entertain patients and sick children.  In the classroom Mia could help with keeping the class organized and help with lessons and presentations.  In retirement homes Mia can help the elderly with day to day tasks that have become challenging for the elderly but would be no problem for Mia to perform over and over again. 

We believe Mia could be the first real robot on the market that can offer such a wide array of uses at such an extraordinary price and we truly hope you agree and would really be proud to have you as a supporter.  

Risks & Challenges

We've assembled an incredible team, scoured the market and built and researched everything about Mia, her systems and her production costs and process.  With your support we WILL bring Mia to market and we WILL deliver every order we receive.  With that being said, as determined as we are there are some things we can't foresee, a problem with a shipment, a delay on a part or mould being created. A slight revision to design for the betterment of the final product.  Sometimes you just have no way to deliver every order on time, in this case, we promise to be clear and concise in our communication of any roadblocks that may keep anyone from getting their Mia on time.

We have put together a stellar management and development team that has a long history of solving problems as well as the connections and contacts required to fulfil on our promises to you.

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