Draft:OLogic, Inc.

OLogic, Inc. (also known as OLogic) is a specialist robotics and engineering consulting agency based in Santa Clara, California. Founded by Ted Larson and Bob Allen in 2005, OLogic is best known for their engineering services in the electrical, mechanical, firmware, hardware, and software specialties stretching over the Consumer Electronics, Robotics and IoT sectors. OLogic has since worked with many customers and partners, most notably; Hasbro, NVIDIA, MediaTek, Intel, onsemi, and Google.

History (2005-2018)
OLogic was founded in 2005 by Ted Larson and Bob Allen after the two met at the Silicon Valley Home Brew Robotics Club. OLogic's early robots focused on the ‘balancing robot’ technology and the software that went along with it. With this technology, Larson and Allen attended the first RobotNexus trade show held in San Jose in 2004. There, they met a few engineers from Hasbro, which was a critical milestone in the history of the company as it directly led Larson and Allen to officially launch their company, OLogic.

In 2007, OLogic partnered with Neurosky for product development of their very early brainwave reading technologies. Later that year, OLogic produced their first toy product in 2009. This product, the Force Trainer, was made for toy maker Uncle Milton Industries.

OLogic continued to grow rapidly as Larson and Allen secured other consulting jobs in the emerging robotics market in Silicon Valley. Securing high profile projects such as an Android Robot for Google.

In 2011 OLogic expanded their operations with their first employees joining from the HomeBrew Robotics Club, a club dedicated to supporting the robotics community in the valley with regular meetups. OLogic's employee headcount expansion helped them to increase the number of projects in the consumer electronics space.

In 2012, Bob Allen retired from the company and Ted Larson became sole leader of the company. To this day, Larson continued to focus the company on engineering consultancy services as he increased the number of projects.

In 2014, OLogic was contracted as one of the original 17 partners supporting Google’s Project Tango. This project was a significant milestone in the growth of the company, extending their core engineering capabilities with lidar Indoor Navigation.

In 2015, Knightscope contracted OLogic to provide engineering development support for the launch of their security robot. Knightscope has raised further crowdsource funding with StartEngine.

In 2018, OLogic was contracted by Google for Project Bloks, an educational research program aimed at developing an open hardware platform to help developers, designers, and researchers build the next generation of tangible programming experiences for kids.

History (2019-Present)
In 2019, OLogic formalized their product development strategy. This strategy, called Guerilla Product Development, quickly rose to popularity through word of mouth. Larson has given multiple presentations at RoboBusiness in 2021 and 2022

In late 2019 and early 2020, OLogic entered in a partnership with MediaTek and BayLibre as a part of their IoT ecosystem. Having experienced the limitations of RaspberryPi for commercial scale products, OLogic, with MediaTek, designed a new platform called the Pumpkin. The first Pumpkin, the Pumpkin i500 was released in 2020. It was built on MediaTek’s Genio 500 and 350 chipsets and certified AWS Greengrass, in 2020 and 2022. The i350 was released shortly after in 2021, as a lower cost version to expand the applications and use cases, such as the Snorble robot

In 2020, OLogic formalized their partnership with Intel as they became a recognized Development Service Vendor for Intel RealSense technology. OLogic’s strategic partnerships expanded with onsemi as OLogic became an Ecosystem Partner.

In 2022, OLogic entered into a partnership with Cadence. OLogic has presented at multiple Cadence Live Conferences as experts in the use of the design tools as OLogic is a power user of the tools due to the large volume of designs they create each year

OLogic has been designing robots since 2015 with Vicor Corporation, putting their power technology in various products such as Knightscope’s K5 security robot. Since then, OLogic has brought Vicor to life in multiple robotic projects and became an official partner in 2022.

In Recent Media

 * RoboBusiness 2021
 * RoboBusiness 2022
 * Whipsaw
 * Robot Industry Podcast
 * Robot Report Podcast
 * Vicor Corporation Podcast
 * Robotics Summit and Expo