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Does this picture above ring a bell for you？This Robot(Buddy) in 2019 Robot all-stars list ,and won CES 2018 best of innovation award. Buddy as a crowdfunding project, achieved 105% their goals in only one day since when it launched. 2019 Robot All Star list picked by Georgia Tech, IEEE, and iRobot. Our Buddy looks nervous this time. Rodolphe Hasselvander, the creator of Buddy and CEO of Blue Frog Robotics, sent a message to backers

大家还记得我们在国际版全明星机器人专刊的第二期介绍的“主演”Buddy吗？就是那个在去年CES 2018上荣获了创新奖的最高分然后在众筹网站上登陆首日就斩获105%目标筹款的网红机器人。这个由佐治亚理工学院、电气电子工程师协会、IROBOT联合选出来的全明星机器人目前状况并不乐观。就在不久前（2019年5月24日）Buddy的研发公司（Blue Frog Robotics蓝蛙）在他们的官网发布了道歉声明。

道歉声明大意如下：

Since five years, our team’s passion has been to create the most advanced home companion and assistant robot possible to help and entertain anyone that needs him. I am infinitely grateful to the Buddy team for working tirelessly on his development. However, all of these efforts to build the most flawless Buddy have taken more time and money than expected. Our focus on making sophisticated mechanical designs, using cutting-edge electronics, and scalable software architecture and artificial intelligence, has made us unprepared for the delay in Buddy’s conception.

五年来，我们的团队一直致力于为需要陪伴以及娱乐的人，创造最先进的家庭伴侣和助手机器人。我在此非常感谢Buddy团队为他的发展不懈努力。但是，所有这些努力建立最完美的Buddy花费了比预期更多的时间和金钱。我们专注于制造复杂的机械设计，使用尖端的电子设备，可扩展的软件架构和人工智能，使我们对Buddy概念的延迟毫无准备。

You have been waiting for a long time to welcome Buddy into your home. I know how frustrating it is to not receive what you ordered. I understand that you are tired of waiting and I give you my heartfelt apologies. As the CEO of Blue Frog Robotics, I apologize to our backers and pre-sales buyers, as well as our entire community of supporters for the disappointment. I take responsibility for the frustration this delay is causing you, and I want to make things right.

从下订单开始购买者们已经等了很长时间。我知道没有收到你点的东西是多么令人沮丧。我知道你们已经厌倦了等待，我向你们表示衷心的歉意。作为蓝蛙机器人公司的首席执行官，我向我们的支持者和售前买家，以及我们整个支持者团体的失望表示道歉。我要为这次延误给你们带来的挫折负责，我要把事情做好。

And here's how they want to do this:

The launch of an equity crowdfunding campaign by the end of June will help provide:

1. the finalization of industrialization and launch of manufacturing

2. the delivery of your companion from April 2020

3. the launching of Buddy to the European and American markets

4. the opportunity for Buddy Fans to become investors in Buddy’s future

5. priority delivery for our backers and presale orders along with a special gift: a lifetime free access to a selection of paid apps.

以下是他们的具体行动：

6月底蓝蛙公司将启动股权众筹活动，然后他们将：

1. 工业化的结束并且准备开始量产

2. 由2020年4月开始出货并运输到消费者手中

3. Buddy进军欧美市场

4. Buddy的粉丝成为Buddy未来的投资者的机会

5. 优先为Buddy的支持者和预售订单赠送一个特殊的礼物：终身免费访问一系列付费应用程序。

Overall, Blue Frog Robotics does not have enough funding to deliver Buddy. They also don't seem to have the ability to raise more money to do so, which is not super surprising considering the state of the social home robots market right now. So, the only option left (or at least, the one that they've chosen) is to ask for more money from the people who have already invested in Buddy. This may be a tough sell— Buddy fans will need to renew their faith in a company that hasn't communicated with them for years, and contribute more money towards a robot that they've already paid for.

总而言之，这封道歉信的意思就是蓝蛙公司没有足够的资金来制造Buddy完成订单交付。考虑到目前社交家庭机器人市场的状况其实不难想象，他们似乎没有能力筹集更多的资金。所以，剩下的唯一选择（或者至少是他们选择的那个）就是向那些已经在Buddy身上投资的人索要更多的钱。这可能是一个艰难的销售活动-毕竟Buddy的粉丝们需要重新树立他们对一个多年没有与他们沟通的公司的信心，并为他们已经支付的机器人贡献更多的钱。

Actually, Buddy was supposed to ship 3 years ago, in September of 2016. Blue Frog Robotics didn’t say much before this statement, and now they are very sorry, and if you forgive them and contribute just a little more money, they have a plan. We hope Buddy all the best, but do we still need our Buddy in 2020?

事实上，Buddy约定首批发货时间是2016年9月而现在已经过去三年。在一个三年内并没有给消费者过多解释的公司现在希望消费者们原谅他们并且投入一点点钱来支持他们准备好的方案。在此希望Buddy最终内量产市售,但是2020年的时候是否消费者们还真的需要这个小伙伴呢？

素材来源：

https://www.buddytherobot.com/Mailling/2019/03_CP/index.html

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/buddy-the-social-robot-is-somehow-not-dead-yet