Dear Kambria Community,

The last few months have been incredibly busy! We have been hard at work developing the Kambria open innovation platform, with the goal to dramatically accelerate development and adoption of the world’s most advanced AI & robotics technology. Today, we are one-step closer towards achieving that mission.

We are excited to announce the availability of the MVP version of the Kambria platform which will enable our user base to start testing and building compelling robotics and AI use cases. Starting today, we will provide early access to the first 200 users and we cannot wait to see what you build using our platform! If you are interested in testing out the platform, please fill out the request form https://goo.gl/forms/DsnkQjqDIfUgLiG13

The goal of this MVP is to put together the lower level frameworks and to build the infrastructure for user flows in the system. On the blockchain side, we have deployed a test token contract on Rinkeby and a test token called KATT. We have also built an e-commerce like framework with browsable products, a cart, and the ability to check out and pay for items using KATT. We’ll be enhancing this in the near future to support the upload of custom designed parts (e.g. 3D printed, waterjet cut, etc.), and workflows around those parts.

We are focusing a lot of our effort on the infrastructure and tools for the Kambria codebase as well, so that early developers and partners can start sharing and collaborating on designs. We have completed the initial GitHub integration so that open repositories hosted on GitHub can be linked into Kambria and explored. We have a placeholder module for KDNA in JSON format with some initial semantic tags, but this will evolve quickly over the next few weeks.

On top of the GitHub integration, we also have a built-in STL viewer that allows you to preview mechanical parts that are semantically tagged within each repository. We are working on other content browsers for Eagle schematics as well. Our vision here is that you will be able to dive in and see every single part of any Kambria design in one shot, and in doing so you will be able to traverse tens or hundreds of GitHub repositories easily to find the ones that you want to use in your own design.

Stay tuned — we have a test design that we will give away on Kambria as the first test project! We have a neat wearable Arc Reactor that includes some 3D printed parts, PCBs, and random other parts to source. It doesn’t quite put out 2 gigawatts but with the right outfit it can make you look like Tony Stark!