Re: [Paparazzi-devel] www.jobyrobotics.com

[Piotr Esden-Tempski]

Hi everyone,

I can confirm that the Joby Robotics website is down because of server issues. 
The shop was running on Antoine's server and he doesn't have time to get it 
back up and running because he is very busy with his PhD at the moment.

I have no idea when Joby Robotics will go back online. There may be more news 
on that in January when Antoine has more time on his hands.

Colin was running the Joby Robotics sales and fulfillment, but he is now 
working on another project most of the time.

I co-founded my own startup, Transition Robotics, in order to design, build, 
and sell the Quadshot (http://theQuadshot.com), which is designed around 
Paparazzi-compatible Open Source hardware and software. We at Transition 
Robotics are creating updated autopilot hardware, and will release a new 
autopilot called Lia. We are queuing up production runs of Lisa/M v2.0 and 
Aspirin v2.0 and they will be available in our own online shop in the first 
quarter of 2012.

Finally, to remove all doubt, we don't have any dispute with Antoine or Joby 
Robotics, we are just overworked with other projects. :-)

I hope that answers at least a few of the questions. Sorry everyone for any 
confusion or doubt. I really hope that everything including easy access to 
Paparazzi compatible hardware will be smooth very soon.

Have a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Cheers, Piotr Esden-Tempski

On Dec 16, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Christophe De Wagter wrote:

> I just had some contact with a few people from Joby, and although this is not 
> an official reply and I do not know all aspects, I know at least quite some 
> people are hoping for news quickly, so here is how I understand things: the 
> website going down was more a coincidence but came at the same time that 
> several people left Joby + Antoine is presenting his Ph.D these weeks and 
> focusing entirely on that + quadshot project bought quite a bit of the 
> hardware making stocks low (not empty) and new assembly orders needed + 
> several people are facing new career decisions ... I believe it is the fact 
> that (friendly) discussions are still going on (who will order/sell which 
> stock, who will make which huge investment in ordering new hardware etc..) 
> while people are extremely busy the end of the year that has delayed the 
> official reply which is still to come. However I think that things are 
> looking good as I was told that new orders have been made (at least lisa-m), 
> so it's a matter of having some more patience as it all takes a lot of work. 
> Hope this helps. 
> 
> -Christophe 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Roman Krashanitsa <address@hidden> wrote:
> Yep I realise this. Also I realise that something has happened to the company 
> and nobody knows what was it. What is bad - nobody is willing to tell 
> customens what happened. Of several possibilities there are: owners changed; 
> the was a split due to some argument; the company got absorbed by other 
> company; web site belongs to a completely different company - just to name a 
> few. Also, looks like Piotr is no longer with the company and he was a real 
> driving force, at least from what I saw. I thought Jobyrobotics would do some 
> public statement, but silence looks awkward and bad.
>  
> my 2c
>  
> 
> 
>  
> 2011/12/13 Bernard Davison <address@hidden>
> So that website is down and it would clearly seem that no one on this list 
> has influence with the owner of the site.
> 
> I guess like any other website on the internet... you'll have to wait for the 
> owners of the site to do something about it.
> It would seem that they are working on things and the website isn't the 
> highest priority for them...
> 
> So you and I will just have to wait. :-)
> 
> 
> 
> On 14/12/2011, at 2:16 PM, Roman Krashanitsa wrote:
> 
>> But the web site is still down. So, despite the link on the paparazzi web 
>> page, nobody can order anything anyway..
>> Anyone has any explanations to what is going on?
>> 
>> 2011/12/13 Cédric Marzer <address@hidden>
>> Hi all,
>> Things seem to go slowly back to normal at jobyrobotics. Colin just sent me
>> an email. I guess that I can expect to get my IMU soon. So I guess that one
>> can keep the link to jobyrobotics online after all...
>> I must admit that Piotr always answered very kindly and very quickly to most
>> of my emails, but in a way that made me suspect that he was not directly
>> involved in jobyrobotics anymore and until yesterday I had no contact with
>> someone that could tell me exactly what was going on with my order.
>> I'll let you know if and when I will have received it.
>> Cheers
>> Cédric
>> 
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