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"Grishin Robotics, the personal robotics fund kickstarted by Mail.Ru Group co-founder and CEO Dmitry Grishin, has pumped $250,000 into RobotAppStore, an open, online marketplace for robotics applications.\r\n\r\nThe investment firm had earlier backed Y Combinator graduate Double Robotics with the exact same amount. In both cases, detailed terms of the deal were not disclosed.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBasically, RobotAppStore enables users around the world to purchase and download hundreds of applications that extend the functionality of any types of 'personal' robot \u2013 from Roomba vacuum cleaners to the AR.Drone quadcopter and whatnot.\r\n\r\nDevelopers can add their own applications to the online marketplace (and receive 70 percent of future earnings). \r\n\r\nDmitry Grishin - evidently - believes in the fast-growing robotics space, and comments:\r\n\r\n\u201CRobotics is a combination of good hardware and software \u2013 thus, the important role of a project like the RobotAppStore in the market ecosystem is unquestionable. \r\n\r\nThe concept of \u2018Cloud robotics\u2019, which implies ability of all robots to connect to the internet, share a common knowledge database and seamlessly upgrade their functions in real-time, is a soon-to-be future; one reminiscent of the of personal computer industry.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nWe recently caught up with Grishin at the Dublin Web Summit and did a quick video interview with him about Mail.Ru and Grishin Robotics:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nImage credit: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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