15-year-old Mark Drobnich developed a robotic platform called ELFi robots and wants to make it available to everyone, the zakarpatpost.net informed. To this end, the boy launched a campaign on Kickstarter: to achieve the goal, he needs to raise 33,000 pounds. As Mark told the Inspired, he now is presenting his idea in the final of the World Robot Olympiad in the capital of Qatar.
We already wrote about this talented student from Uzhgorod: in the summer of 2014, Mark reached the finals of the Google Science Fair, the prestigious science competition for young people. His project titled "School presentation microscope with remote control", was among the 15 finalists selected by the Google jury during the competition.
Mark studies in the chemical and biological form of Uzhgorod gymnasium, and has been interested in science and design solutions since childhood, the inspired reports. The boy made the microscope for the Google Science Fair on his own using LEGO parts. The same concept underlies ELFi Robotics: people will receive a set of tools and software, using which they can assemble a toy robot. Robots made with ELFi Robotics can communicate with people in English – support for other languages, according to Mark, is coming soon.
The student’s project also includes the launch of the RoboMarket, where users will be able to buy the necessary parts and accessories to create their own robots. At the project site, you can track the progress of the preparation for its launch: the mechanical part is 95% ready and the software part is 80% ready. His father Oleksiy Drobnich is assisting and helping him in all that.
A little over a month remains till the end of the campaign on Kickstarter.
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