Drobot [3] was established in Shanghai on February 20 10, and the website of 20 13 was officially launched. Committed to providing open source hardware products, robots and spare parts products for teenagers and makers, it has a knowledge-based maker community, a record-setting and a mushroom cloud maker space, and provides all-round software and hardware support for professional and entry-level makers. [ 1]
Headquartered in Pudong, Shanghai, DFRobot is a leading international high-tech enterprise engaged in open source hardware, robot products, STEM education, maker education and artificial intelligence education. Since its establishment, DFRobot has launched thousands of independent research and development products and provided maker education products and solutions for global education and training institutions, and has now entered more than 8,000 schools around the world. [4]
The legal representative of DFRobot is Ye Chen. According to public information, Ye Chen graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University and obtained a doctorate in engineering from the University of Nottingham, UK. In 2008, he launched the open source hardware project "HCR", and later returned to China to create DFRobot and served as CEO.
65438+10.3, DFRobot announced that it had obtained a new round of financing with the amount of tens of millions of RMB, which was led by Guo Kejia and others. [5]
On March 4th, DFRobot (Shanghai Zhiwei Robot), an open source hardware and maker education provider, launched a brand-new artificial intelligence education product "HuskyLens" with the Chinese name "Hal knows the map". This is an artificial intelligence visual sensor with one-click learning ability, which can be applied to educational scenes such as machine learning, image recognition and automatic driving. [6]
In April 2020, DFRobot (Shanghai Zhiwei Robot), an open source hardware and maker education provider, released a new series of Internet of Things development boards.