PETOI NEWSROOM
Real robots. Open source. Palm-sized.
Story, stats, and high-res assets for press and partners.
PETOI NEWSROOM
Real robots. Open source. Palm-sized.
Story, Stats, & High-res Assets
Petoi's open-source programmable robot pets - Bittle X (robot dog) and Nybble Q (robot cat) - have been featured by leading science, technology, and education publications worldwide. Coverage spans Petoi's Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns, STEM education applications, research use at Carnegie Mellon University and Iowa State University, robotics/STEM camps, and maker communities worldwide and the OpenCat open-source framework - the most-starred quadruped robot platform on GitHub.
Story, Stats, & High-res Assets
Petoi's open-source programmable robot pets - Bittle X (robot dog) and Nybble Q (robot cat) - have been featured by leading science, technology, and education publications worldwide. Coverage spans Petoi's Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns, STEM education applications, research use at Carnegie Mellon University and Iowa State University, robotics/STEM camps, and maker communities worldwide and the OpenCat open-source framework - the most-starred quadruped robot platform on GitHub.
Publications | Headline/Coverage | Date |
|---|---|---|
TechCrunch | 2018 | |
Interesting Engineering | 2018 | |
MagPi | 21019 | |
raspberry pi hackspace | 2020 | |
IEEE Spectrum | 2020 | |
Magpi | 2020 | |
TechCrunch | 2020 | |
IEEE Spectrum | 2020 | |
IEEE Spectrum | 2022 | |
Tom's hardware | 2022 | |
Digital Trends | - | |
IEEE | 2022 | |
BBC Radio Berkshire | 2022 | |
Mirror | 2023 | |
Digital Trends | 2023 | |
T3 | 2023 | |
Electronics Weekly | 2023 | |
IEEE Robots Guide | Oct 2024 | |
Interesting Engineering | 2024 | |
Make Magazine | 2025 | |
Make Magazine | 2019 | |
Hackster.io | 2020 | |
Hackster.io | 2018 | |
Hackaday.io | 2019 | |
Yanko Design | May 2022 | |
Yanko Design | Nov 2021 | |
Yanko Design | Dec 2024 | |
Mashable | 2021 | |
Stuff Magazine | 2020 | |
BBC Science Focus | 2022 | |
Financial Time | 2023 | |
Wired | 2020 | |
Fox News | 2026 | |
San Jose Mercury News | 2026 |
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About Petoi
Petoi is a US-based robotics company founded in 2017 by Dr. Rongzhong Li (Wake Forest University, PhD Physics, MS Computer Science) that designs open-source, programmable quadruped robot kits for STEM educators, makers, hobbyists, and university researchers.
Petoi's two flagship products - Bittle X V2 (robot dog) and Nybble Q (robot cat) - are powered by the OpenCat framework, the most-starred open-source quadruped robot platform on GitHub.
Petoi has shipped 30,000+ robots to customers in 60+ countries. Its robots are used in K-12 schools, university research labs including Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Colorado Boulder, and maker communities worldwide.Nybble launched on Indiegogo in 2018 (Petoi's first product).
Bittle followed with a $567,000 Kickstarter campaign in October 2020 - more than 11× its funding goal, backed by 2,052 supporters.
Petoi robots are programmable in Python, Arduino C++, and Scratch-like block coding, and are compatible with Raspberry Pi and Nvidia Jetson Nano for computer vision and Physical AI applications.
Media Enquiries & Interviews
For media enquiries, interview requests with founder Dr. Rongzhong Li or COO Kai Mai, product review unit requests, and high-resolution asset requests not included in the press kit above, contact:press@petoi.com
Response time: 1–2 business days. Petoi is headquartered in the United States and serves media in all time zones.