Pittsburgh, United States
Petoi is a startup that aims to design pets for the future. Their friendly pet robots are educational, programmable, engaging, and cute! Founded in 2017 and headquartered in the United States, Petoi is the maker of futuristic bionic robot pets for adults and kids. These high-performance, remote/app-controlled, and highly programmable robots are built on top of Arduino and can be extended with popular open-source hardware such as Raspberry Pi and Arduino modules.
Petoi is also the creator of OpenCat, a popular open-source quadruped robot platform. The company started as OpenCat, Rongzhong Li's viral open-source robotic pet project in 2016. The project had a successful crowdfunding campaign for its first product, the robot cat Nybble, on Indiegogo in 2018, with product delivery in 2019. In October 2020, Petoi's second product, the robot dog Bittle, successfully raised $567k on Kickstarter and started shipment in December 2020.
