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Vex is a robotics company founded 2007, based in United States, developing 1 robot primarily in the Education category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
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Add a deployment →Toy robotics and STEM products for kids
HEXBUG sells toy robotics and STEM products, including micro robotic creatures, AquaBots, Battle Ground, and VEX Robotics-branded products on its site. The brand was launched in 2007 by Innovation First International and is now part of Spin Master following a 2023 acquisition announcement.
Company facts
- HQ
- Greenville, United States
- Founded
- 2007 · 19 yrs
- Website
- www.hexbug.com
RoboScore
53.06 RoboScore + 0.92 Momentum· Adequate evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
5 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
Milestones
Spin Master announced an agreement to acquire the HEXBUG brand from Innovation First International.
Launched the HEXBUG micro robotic creatures product line.
Press coverage
- Spin Master to Acquire the HEXBUG Brand and Portfolio of Creative Robotic Technology
PR Newswire · Jan 2023
In the news
2 events · last 90 days
+0.92momentumof 15 maxVEX Robotics Kicks Off Its 20th Season At Mall Of America With 120 High School Teams Competing
In the news
2 events · last 90 days
Why Vex has been in the news, across 3 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Public loss record
US makers file into registers that compel reporting — device adverse events to the FDA, driverless crashes to NHTSA, workplace deaths to OSHA. A maker with no record here has genuinely not had one filed against it.
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