Facts

• Segment: Autonomy Software
• Country: Singapore
• Founded: 2022
• Website: https://www.frodobots.ai

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Sources

Summary

FrodoBots builds robot-gaming and teleoperation networks using low-cost sidewalk robots and robotic arms. Its EarthRover project lets remote users drive physical robots over the internet, creating real-world data and interactive games around distributed robot fleets.

Market context

FrodoBots is one of the clearest examples of teleoperated robot systems being used as a data and evaluation layer for embodied AI. Its work sits between robot building, remote operation, benchmarking, and open dataset generation, and it directly fed into the early formation of BitRobot. FrodoBots develops teleoperated rover systems, robot-game environments and real-world navigation datasets used for embodied-AI and robotics data collection.

Facts

• Website: https://www.frodobots.ai
• HQ: Singapore, Singapore
• Founded: 2022
• Segment: Autonomy Software

Teleoperated rover data for embodied AI

FrodoBots develops low-cost teleoperated rover systems and robotic game formats for real-world navigation, data collection and embodied-AI testing.

• Target environment: Outdoor and urban robot-navigation data collection, remote-operation games and embodied-AI benchmark environments.
• Deployment model: Human-in-the-loop robot deployment model using teleoperation and game mechanics to generate physical-world data.
• Customer context: Embodied-AI researchers, robot-data teams and communities interested in low-cost real-world robot operation.
• Workflow context: People remotely drive rovers, generating navigation traces and physical-world interaction data outside laboratory settings.
• Commercial maturity: Early robotics-data company with distinctive data-generation mechanics and links to embodied-AI evaluation.
• Market position: Positioned as a robot data and evaluation layer rather than a conventional rover OEM.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on robot uptime, geographic coverage, data quality, safety operations and usefulness of collected data for model training.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent systems include robot teleoperation datasets, real-world navigation benchmarks, low-cost rovers and data-collection games.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2024-09-16 - Market Signal - FrodoBots brings the Earth Rover Challenge to IROS 2024 - FrodoBots launched the Earth Rover Challenge around IROS 2024 as a competition between AI teams and human gamers
• 2024-01-01 - Capability - FrodoBots releases the FrodoBots-2K teleoperation dataset - FrodoBots released the FrodoBots-2K dataset for real-world robotic teleoperation and navigation research
• 2023-07-01 - Product Launch - FrodoBots launches ET Fugi as a rover-based robotic game across 40+ cities - FrodoBots launched ET Fugi, a rover-based game using real-world sidewalk robots as playable characters
• 2022-01-01 - Company Formation - FrodoBots Labs starts gamified robot data-collection work - FrodoBots Labs was founded in 2022 by brothers Michael and Sam Cho.

Team

• Michael Cho - Co-founder
• Sam Cho - Co-founder

Relationships

• BitRobot - Launch contributor - Launch contributor to the BitRobot network; FrodoBots helped launch the network and build the first subnets (BitRobot official story).