Open Source Kit for Robots

To borrow Android terminology, this would allow the user to "flash a custom ROM" on Vector. Community developers can then build what they want. This is a far deeper experience than a simple SDK.

This is very different from the "Escape Pod" in that you are developing on top of our operating system. The result will allow Vector more AI-like behavior and should accelerate machine learning.

Many of you have asked us for a simple explanation: this is for the hardcore hobbyist or user who would like to create their own stuff sell it or sell it back to us to sell to all of our users. Think of this being an "app store" for a robot. 

'there is no actual shipping of a physical product'