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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Robotics, Telepresence |
Founded | 2011[1] |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Telepresence robots: • Double • Double 2 • Double 3 |
Website | www |
Double Robotics is a technology startup company that produces iPad-based telepresence robots called Double and Double2. [3] [4] [5] Double, which resembles a Segway PT, [6] has a price of $2,499.
The robot uses gyroscope and accelerometer sensors in its base, and can be controlled with a desktop, tablet, or smartphone. [7]
Double Robotics received seed funding from Y Combinator. Johnson & Johnson and The Coca-Cola Company are testing Double and seven Fortune 500 companies have preordered. Preorders total over $500,000. [3] Customer deliveries began February 2013. [8]
As of January 2017, the company claims about 8000 robots being sold since 2013. [9]
In August 2019, the company debuted the Double 3, a robot intended to increase productivity of remote workers and distance learners. [10]