A cardboard 'bot from Cambridge makes it big at the Tribeca Film Festival

At the DIY Days conference last Saturday in Manhattan, I ran into MIT Media Lab alum Alexander Reben and his little cardboard buddy, BlabDroid.

Reben was in town for the Tribeca Film Festival; he had deployed 20 BlabDroids there as robotic documentarians, asking questions of random people and recording their answers. (BlabDroid also won the Creative Sparks competition at DIY Days, earning Reben some free office space in New York and a "micro-grant" of $500. I served as a judge.) http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2013/05/a_cardboard_bot_from_cambridge.html

Article courtesy of the Boston Globe-Innovation Economy posted by Scott Kirsner