Francisco Dias

I'm a 18 years old student from Lisbon, Portugal. Back in 2009 I found an awesome website called Let's Make Robots! and got inspired to start making my own robots as an hobby, which you can find on this website.

After a while I found out that it was much easier and cheaper to use my netbook on the robots instead of buying all the different parts and modules separately and built a little tank and some different wheeled platforms.

Later, Artica and IdMind found my robot's videos on Youtube and invited me to start collaborating with them on their newer robot - Magabot. Since then I've been developed different applications for magabot such as Skype, Google Chat and Hangouts controllers, person follower using Kinect, color tracker, etc.

I'm now starting a project called Livebots which is a platform for all the robots that people can interact with through the internet. Have a look and try them for yourself!