The document describes a telepresence robot called Webot produced by Wicron. Webot allows for remote visits of exhibitions and telepresence at lessons, and can be controlled from a browser without additional software. It costs $4600-$6500. Wicron is seeking $2,000,000 in investments to scale production of Webot and expand sales globally and within Russia for applications such as museums, schools, and businesses.

1. The robot Webot
Wicron
sales@wicron.com

2. Problems
➜ Commercial exhibitions and museums want to increase
ticket sales.
➜ State museums want to popularize world culture.
➜ Banks and shops want to minimize payments to
employees and maximize their quality of work.
➜ Organizations want to simplify the education process of
employees and methods of quality control of their work.
➜ Schools need to provide for disabled children the way
to take part in education process.

3. The Solution
Remote visits of exhibitions
Service robot for business
Telepresence at lessons

4. Name Photo Control from the browser.
No installation of
additional software is
required.
Autonomous motion Embedded dialog system Additional tablet PC needs
to be installed inside the
robot
Country Price
Webot Yes Yes Yes No Russia $4600 - $6500
iRobot Ava
500
Yes Yes
No
No USA $69500
Beam Yes No
No
No USA $1995
Anybots QB Yes No No No USA $9700
VGo Yes No No No USA Not published
Double
Robotics
Yes No No Yes USA
$3596
(with iPad and
charging base)
Gostai No Yes Yes No France $8400
Competitors

5. Market size
➜ The project is addressed for B2B and B2G sectors.
➜ The price of one Webot is $4600 for telepresence version
and $6500 for autonomous version.
➜ The total addressable market of B2G sector in Russia is
$3.4 million in 2015 and $24.9 million in 2020.*
➜ The market size of telepresence robots in the USA will
grow up from $42 million in 2014 to $372 million in 2019.
CAGR will be 54.4%.**
* - Russian B2G market is formed by state programs "Accessible Environment" and "Culture of Russia".
** - According to estimations of ABI Research in "Consumer and Personal Robotics" report.

6. Business Model
➜ The model of monetization is sales via channels and
getting money for integration and support.
➜ We currently sell robots in Moscow and Moscow region
by ourselves.
➜ We search for dealers in regions of Russia and abroad
(We already have dealers in Vladimir and Astrakhan
regions).

7. Go-to-market
➜ Entrance into Russian B2G market was performed using
crowdfunding campaign.
➜ Webot is continuously promoting in Internet media and on TV.
➜ Company takes part in Russian and foreign exhibitions (Cebit,
Innorobo, Skolkovo Robotics, Robotics Expo...).
➜ We work with Russian government to organize sales of large
amount of Webots to it.
➜ We perform a lot of presentation for Russian and foreign
companies.

8. Traction
➜ Igor Ashmanov invested into the project.
➜ Company is a resident of the Skolkovo foundation and member of
“Technologies of opportunities” program.
➜ Company got Russian design patent and applied for 3 additional Russian
patents.
➜ Company got certification for Webot inside Eurasian Economic Union.
➜ We registered our own trademarks.
➜ We sold 17 robots (16 – in Russia and 1 – in USA).
➜ We found dealers in Vladimir and Astrakhan regions.
➜ We currently have active negotiations about sales of robots in Moscow,
Vladimir, Kaluga and Madrid.

9. We need
➜ $2,000,000 investments for scaling our business.
➜ Connections with potential customers in Russia and abroad.
➜ PR support.

10. Contacts
Wicron
https://wicron.com/en
email: sales@wicron.com