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Sorry - I had logo, and the turtle robot's that run it, mixed up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(robot)

I was comparing the turtle robot I used when I was younger to the Robotiky robot (I appreciate that it is also possible to build a very sophisticated turtle robot).

I think it is important that the hardware is based on a big opensource platform – it means you are never going to have an expensive paperweight. With the software it is transitioning to use standard programming languages – so you get the full hackability of those later on. If there was sufficient demand from users then the software could be open sourced – definitely intend for people to be able to create their own programs and share them.

That would be incredible!

Swapping out the bump sensors for IR is something that we really want to do, we just have to finalise the manufacturing details.

The robot shown is just a prototype, the shipped product will have at least the functionality we have stated - and probably a lot more.

It is based on the arm mbed system.

http://mbed.org/blog/entry/Robotiky-Robot-Kickstarter/

So it is fully hackable running anything you write on that.

We drew some inspiration from Logo, but Robotiky progresses to a much higher level than Logo.

I can assure you that it will be maintained. John and I are committed to this project and have been working on it full time, and will continue to do so.