Thursday, July 28, 2022

Bobacino In R&D Partnership

El Segundo-based Bobacino, one of the crowdfunded, robotic companies backed by Wavemaker Labs, says it has inked a R&D partnership with Boba chain Boba Guys. Financial details of the partnership were not announced. According to Bobacino, Boba Guys will act as "strategic advisors" to Bobacino. Bobacino is led by CEO Darian Ahler. Bobacino is one of multiple, robotics-related and crowdfunded companies backed by Wavemaker Partners, Wavemaker Labs--its venture studio--and Embark Ventures. Wavemaker Labs has a number of robotics-and-crowdfunding ventures, including Miso Robotics (kitchen robots), Piestro (pizza robots), Graze (lawn mowing robots), 800 GO (pizza robots), Future Acres (agriculture robots), and Abundant Robotics (fruit harvesting robots).