Kambria: The Next Revolution in Robotics Has Arrived

When I was a child, I used to love watching movies about Robots. Some of them were good, some of them had gray shades. But all of them carried similar message. The next stage of evolution for Human will be in the field of AI & Robotics and the impact it can bring to your life.

That time I thought, after 20–25 years when I will be a grown up, Robots will be a part of everyone life, like what we have seen in those movie. Now I am in my mid thirty. That dream is still halfway only.

There are 100's of reason but we can round-off it into majorly 3 points.

• Heavy investments lead to high expensive products which reduces mass affordability. Technology is too complex to develop.
• You need more money and brains to pool in which create deterrent for entrance for new players.
• Since most of the R&D are proprietary in nature, sharing rarely happens which delays the progress.

Because of all these above reasons, application of Robots are still confined to niche segments majorly in Industrial applications. Irrespective of all these setbacks there were some who took efforts to make that dream of "Robot in each home" a reality. Ohmni lab was one of them. They introduced "Ohmni" a home robot for connecting families via video "telepresence".

To realize the dream of "Robot in each home", Ohmni has laid the foundation by introducing an ambitious blockchain Project termed Kambria.

As per the Whitepaper, Kambria (named after the Cambrian Explosion) can be summarized as "Kambria is the first blockchain project to build open innovation platform that enables and incentivizes collaborations in R&D, manufacturing, and commercializing advanced technology with a focus on AI & Robotics applications in the consumer space”.

In simple terms Kambria will be building an open source block-chain platform where both developers and manufactures and can benefit mutually by collaborate with each other. All the contribution will be incentivized via KAT tokens. Over the time due to the continuous knowledge sharing happening to the platform, it will be a one-stop-shop for robotics with a collection of thousands of repositories in any robotics field. With the help of this platform

• Developers can enjoy and receive compensation for their contribution
• Companies won’t be needed to invest in heavy R&D as they can take advantage of the knowledge pool
• End users will be able to have their own Robot "low of cost".

To further understand let’s have a look at Kambria Ecosystem from a layman's view. The heart and the brain of the eco system is the "Code base" which is written in modular language, where all the required tool to build a robot are pooled in. Developers can work on a specific component and submit it back to code base and will be rewarded in Tokens.

If a developer wants to get the parts made, they can use the service of Kambria manufacturing alliance and get the job done from any part of the world. Once the part is delivered, the manufacturer will be paid in Tokens as well.

Another component of the ecosystem is the Kambria innovation marketplace. Here there will be open competitions and challenges. Whoever offers the best solution will be rewarded back with handful of tokens. This will accelerate the robotics development as the solutions get mapped back to the platform. So any company who wants to start a robotics revolution just has to visit the platform and utilize the knowledge stored in it rather than to start from the scratch.