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Kambria FAQs

PLATFORM FAQs 1

ICO FAQs 9

INVESTORS FAQs 11

PLATFORM FAQs

1. How is Kambria different from other AI projects such as SingularityNET and


SynapseAI?

Most of other AI projects focus on creating a medium for entities to exchange certain things
such as ideas, data, services for tokens. They are too dependent on third parties to develop
new and useful services. At Kambria, we are creating a comprehensive innovation engine that
supercharges both of the development and adoption of new technology, starting with AI and
robotics. Our platform is uniquely designed to take robotics development all the way from
ideation to manufacturing to assembly and distribution. Furthermore, we are the only project in
the crypto space with a real physical product that can bring concrete value to our users. In short,
what sets us apart is that we can jumpstart the ecosystem with a product of value from the
get-go instead of waiting for people to contribute.

2. Kepler is a direct competitor, what do you plan to do to give Kambria an edge over
them?

While Kepler is being marketed as our direct competitor, they have yet to offer a lot of technical
details on their technology or ecosystem. What we have gathered from their whitepaper is some
sort of incubator in which token holders can invest into various robotics start-ups and get some
ownerships. They do not offer a platform in which technology could be shared and developed on
top of each other. Hence the network effect will be limited. We are looking forward to getting
more technical details from their team before we can comment further on how their project
differs from Kambria.

3. There are only a few members listed on Kambria website, and none has
experience in blockchain. Do we plan to expand the team?

In terms of engineers, we have about 10 covering a wide range of expertise from full-stack
mobile and web development, to mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, machine learning,
and of course blockchain. We are aggressively scaling out our team to 30 by the end of 2018.
Kambria is also being developed by the same team that has an existing robotics company
already selling hundreds of robots worldwide. We have deep expertise over our entire
production pipeline from building boards, to arms and robots.

4. How do we plan to attract developers to share their designs on Kambria platform?

Building a strong developer community is absolutely critical to us. Therefore we spent a lot of
time designing Kambria with game theoretical mechanics

thinking about the game theoretical aspect of Kambria so that we can bootstrap our community
very quickly and incentivize key stakeholders to collaborate and stay for the long-run benefits.
To attract robots developers and reward first-movers, we are implementing a Grim-trigger
strategy1 based on game theory.

Benefits that Kambria offers to robot developers include: easy to jumpstart AI and robotics
projects; reuse state-of-the-art, low-cost, fully reusable algorithms and designs; commercialize
R&D projects via partnerships with corporations; access to robotics research labs; collaborate
with people from all around the world; and legal protection of intellectual property.

5. robotics culture is more the "secret" than sharing knowledge. Currently, market's
leaders will not have interest to share their knowledge with competitors, due to
huge investments they did. How will you proceed for changing their mindset?

Those huge companies that have already invested a ton of capital will eventually come around
due to the amount of technology amassed by Kambria. But things will be kicked off first by 4
groups - super passionate individuals (like those that contributed to linux early on), startups
(struggling to build their own robots on time and budget, or now seeing new opportunities due to
lower cost development with Kambria), universities (making it way easier to develop, share, and
also get value back instead of the risk of trying to start a new company) and large corps who
want to get in to robotics but are finding it super hard (which is what we find in 90% of the big
non-robotics companies pivoting into robotics). Our mindset is basically proof by usefulness and
value - if we can build up our community to the point where Kambria becomes the platform of

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Fudenberg, D. and Tirole, J. (1991). “Game Theory”. The MIT Press. Section 5.1
choice to start with and develop robots (like Linux is for deploying most software), then we have
significant enough value that the large companies will participate. Another argument I've been
testing is to say that they can now easily turn what used to be development costs into revenue
sources. I.e. not every piece of a large robot needs to be proprietary, what about say a motor
drive or some sensor. we've found many partners where the large company may be willing to
share pieces, but they just aren't set up internally to make it happen, i.e. it's not like they'll let
you order just the motors via their own supply chain. So if they (with the help of Kambria
community) help to bring some of those less critical modules on to Kambria, they can gain a lot
of goodwill and also benefit if the community starts using them a lot, with much less hassle than
trying to open up a new business line themselves of selling the components.

6. How do we make sure that people will pay when they download a design from
Kambria?

We are relying on the community to help flag possible violations. They would do so by creating
a case (a smart contract) that can track/run votes and receive a pool of staked token donations.
For each case it will also link to off-chain collaboration like a wiki page or Slack channels where
those interested in the case can confer, collect and share evidence, and coordinate.

The primary signaling mechanism will essentially be similar to a long-running CarbonVote


on-chain. We want to incentivize the community to participate in signaling without any
economic loss as potential cases may gather momentum for a long period of time even prior to
any legal action being initiated. Every KAT holder can send a zero-value ETH transaction from
their wallet to the case's smart contract indicating 'Support' or 'Abstain'. Implicitly, every holder
abstains. A mapping is retained of every address in support and at any block the total KAT held
by supporting addresses signals the total level of support. KAT holders are free to change their
vote at any time by sending another transaction with their updated vote.

This mechanism also enables public attention and external interest in the case. Potentially
hundreds of millions of USD could be signaled in support of legal action. This alone may bring a
spotlight to violators and incentivize them to come into compliance.

7. Do we plan to get into industrial robots or just focus on consumer robots only?

We definitely welcome robotic companies to use technology from Kambria in industrial use
cases, but for Kambria, the main focus will be service robots. @Eli was spot on about the
untapped opportunity in this space. The biggest reason is cost vs. value provided to consumers.
For industrial use, robots could be expensive, and heavy. But for consumer use, we need to
develop something not just cheap, but also lightweight and safe to be used around people. And
the value proposition has to be very clear to the consumer.
This is a huge challenge that no robotics company has really solved yet, except for iRobot with
their Roomba :)
The robotics market is estimated to be $40 billion2 globally. It is projected to grow at a dizzying
pace to top $240 billion in 5 years. Robotics used to be dominated by industry robots that you
see on the assembly lines but more and more robots are being made for the home and office
environment. Kambria will allow for the robotics community to develop new technology on top of
previous work. No longer do we have to reinvent the wheel with every new modification. This
current practice often result in 85% of wasted effort. Given this approach we foresee a much
shorter development time and lower cost for both industrial and consumer robotic companies.

We are creating a platform that enables any entrepreneurs to go after a new market using
robotics applications without having the same resources of big companies. Companies with too
high margin can be outcompeted by other Kambrian companies. This will create an interesting
equilibrium in the long run in which companies will have to collaborate fairly with developers and
the community unless they want to risk getting excluded from the ecosystem. The community
will have the power to control the margin through voting.

8. Why does Kambria use blockchain? Can Kambria project run without blockchain?

One of the most important reasons for Kambria to adopt blockchain is to build our own
tokenomics. This in turn allows us to bootstrap and build a community much faster and stronger
than any other traditional open source projects. If you think about it, the traditional ones either
need a lot of financial backing from a big company (like Android and Google) or at the mercy of
some developers donating their free time to the project (like Linux). Now with Kambria, using
our tokens we can actively acquire all the super cool technology that are still locked away in
patents and research labs, as well as reward developers who contribute to Kambria. But this is
not just a simple financial reward system. The ways we design Kambria and KAT incentivize
developers to submit high quality work as well as continue maintaining their work and
contributing to gain additional rewards. This is a very powerful game theoretical aspect of
Kambria.

The second benefit blockchain is bringing to Kambria is first time ever in the history, we can
break down the process of innovations from getting developed, produced/manufactured, to
commercialized, and allow different parties to tackle each piece separately while maintaining the
transparency and trust through blockchain and distributing all the upside through our
tokenomics. This way the best engineers can focus on making the best robots, while the best
entrepreneurs can focus on finding the best markets and use cases, and get fairly
compensated. If you think about it, this has massive implications for not just robotics but also all
other technology advancements in our society.

Third but also as important is the fact that the technology from Kambria will be open on
blockchain, so that people can maintain and develop on top of it, and the technology is own by

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​https://www.statista.com/statistics/760190/worldwide-robotics-market-revenue/
the community. AI and robotics are way too important to be own by just a few big corporations.
You can already see some of the abuses and privacy violations coming out of the largest social
network. We want to make sure that Kambria will better serve society as the whole.

9. Are there any resources that you would recommend to get more experience with
blockchain development?

Ethereum is probably the platform of choice for developing blockchain and distributed
applications now. Solidity is the language to write smart contracts on ethereum
http://truffleframework.com/​ that’s framework for developing smart contracts in solidity.
https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/​ can use web3.js to make websites talk to blockchains
also remix. most tutorials are taught in remix

10. How does Kambria detect and solve the free-riders problem?

Free rider is someone who is using the technology from Kambria for commercial purposes
without contributing back to the community. This is a difficult and important problem. Our
solution is called ​proof of violations​. Any token holder can stake their tokens with the evidence
that someone is violating the fair-sharing agreement and get the community rally and support
the case. Once we have enough token staked, (a signaling mechanism), we will send legal
teams after the violators and sue them. The proceeds from the legal actions will be distributed
between the original poster and the community. This serves as a very powerful preventive tool.
Any entities (read big corporations) who want to abuse the system now will have to think very
carefully about the implications of their actions when they have a lawsuit and the weight of the
Kambria community on their back. This will help cut down the free rider issues.

11. Please clarify whether Kambria is just an open marketplace (so devs can join
freely and sell/buy things) OR an open platform (code-source too, so everyone can
contribute to expand, to improve the platform). In addition, make some
comparison with other open sources, e.g. Linux, so we can get a wider picture and
deeper understanding of Kambria.

Kambria is more than just a marketplace or an open platform. You can think of Kambria as an
open innovation engine. So similar to Linux in a sense that we will have an open codebase for
hardware, firmware, software, etc., everything that developers need to get a robot up and
running. But more than that, we provide incentives for people to contribute to the platform
through our tokenomics; a marketplace for people to propose, develop, and acquire new
technology; and manufacturing alliance to produce robots based on those new technology
coming out of the codebase. Kambria will help to drive both of the development and adoption of
advanced robotics applications in the world.

12. What is your plan for beyond Q2 2019?


Beyond Q2 2019 is still far out, but we expect to:
- continue expanding the Kambria technology tree by enlisting more projects on the platform
- run hackathons that can drive the social impact
- partner with universities around the world on building and sponsoring robotics labs
- expand Kambria to other verticals beyond Robotics and AI (e.g. drones, electric vehicles, etc.),
turn Kambria platform into a innovation engine.

13. Imagine Kambria grow like a beehive, who would be the queen bee?

The token holders collectively will act as the queen bee for Kambria in the decentralized spirit.

14. I haven’t seen from the documents any mentioning of a virtual environment to
simulate physical world. Something like Gym that OpenAI is trying to create. Is
there any such plan?

Yes definitely, that would play a very important role. Think of Kambria codebase as an SDK for
robotics, so that you can do a ​HelloWorld Robot​ in 5 minutes.

15. How does the marketplace determine the value of an innovation? If a module
becomes more or less critical in the future, what would Kambria do to ensure the
maker is compensated accordingly? And in the long run, would this result in
higher costs?

To be precise, the value of innovation is determined by either the companies who have the need
for the robotics technology or the community composed of experts and/or consumers. They are
also token holders having the long-term interest in the success of the ecosystem. The
marketplace is where this evaluation will happen. And we would argue that this is the best way
innovations could be fairly evaluated for both immediate needs and long-term contribution,
because Kambria would collect a fixed licensing fee percentage. Old technology will fade out for
newer ones. So old technology will get less of a cut. Comparing to patents, which sometimes
impede the process of innovation since companies usually use them to sue each other, or a lot
of time a patented technology just collect dust on the shelf, Kambia would help drive down the
cost of building new robots.

16. Why does the company have to select the winner? Who builds the project: the
company or the dev candidates?

The dev candidates will be the one who develop the technology. We are thinking of having
3rd-party independent expert panel to select the winner. I might like it to be based on a user
voting system over a 24 hr period. Just make sure you have a really good terms and conditions
contract. That makes it more scalable. If s/he doesn’t deliver within a specific time frame, s/he
can’t resubmit for 6 months and gets a lower star rating, or something like that.We'll loop you in
when we design the community building mechanism. Your expertise would be super helpful
here.

17. According to the WP, one of the main constraints for robotics innovation is the
high investments costs needed for innovation. If I have well understood, Kambria,
will provide this infrastructure (both software and hardware) in order to facilitate
innovation from startups?

We thought about the entire process and came up with a solution to what we consider a
"broken" robotics dev process today, and it's on many fronts. Initially starting outside blockchain
- with for example our 3D printing technology (cluster design, custom printers, control software)
where we can make production parts (not just prototypes) and an incredibly low cost for any
quantity 1...1000. So many robotics startups and companies have been interested in this and
come to visit us because they see what a huge difference this can be for robotics. The Kambria
manufacturing alliance + API solves the problem of collaboration and supply chain. So much
time roboticists spend is just finding parts, setting up arrangements with suppliers. And if I find
someone to make my parts here in the US, even if I share my design files to a partner lab in say
Singapore or France, they still need to do lots of overhead to find their own local supplier who
can cut or make or source the parts for them, which slows things down tremendously. Our goal
is to make robotics hardware development as fast and lean as software, instead of "Write once,
run anywhere" in software we want "Design once, make anywhere" enabled by Kambria. That
eliminates all the friction in collaboration and will make it possible for roboticists to build off each
others work rather than all doing separate things all fragmented and then on top of that of
course the key part is blockchain - allowing us to tokenize and design game theoretic incentives
for people to want to collaborate together. The token is the key and the heart. Without it today,
robotics collaboration is a losing game. You see every single company incentivized to hide their
tech. put simply, today secrecy is rewarded. Using the token we can change this so that
openness is rewarded more, which changes the game completely.

18. On legal protection, I am concerned that the process may hamper instead of
fostering new practical applications/ product innovation. In reality every party has
its own motivation and incentives aside from the community’s interest. Also, is
Kambria Fair Use team “centralized” compliance team?

It is complicated and we don't claim we know for sure this is the best way to go :) We will have
to carefully design the system, weighing in all the pros and cons, and then test it out, see what
works what doesn't work and iterate from there. Without legal protection though, the game
theoretical aspect of the platform will be lost, and we will face a lot of other serious issues that
might stop innovation altogether. Kambria Fair Use team is the support for the community to
ensure compliance. The decision to take legal action is decentralized for sure. But the legal
action, under the current legal framework, is still a well-defined process that we have to follow.
As Kambria matures, we welcome legal experts to join the Fair Use team to provide services to
the community.
19. Why can’t Kambria just go the normal open source route like other software
projects such as Gitlab or MongoDB?

Software has much lower costs for developers to learn and contribute. Any developers in their
spare times can spend couple hours a week to contribute. For hardware, the cost is much
higher. They will have to spend a lot more time to design a board, go find and buy the parts, and
spend money to make some prototypes. And there is no standard interface right now for people
to contribute stand-alone hardware modules.

If you check history of MongoDB and Gitlab, they were started quite a while ago, MongoDB in
2007 and GitLab in 2011. And GitLab recently raised series C with $20M in October 2017.
That’s probably getting to $100M-$200M in 8 years, which is a long time IMHO.

20. How do I know that what they have come up with is the right solution to my problem if
i know not anything about it

We definitely keep in mind that not everyone is a robotics expert :) We will have independent
3rd-party experts to help you design the project, set the criteria, and verify the winning solutions.
These experts are voted and curated by the token holders to make sure they will have the best
interest of the community and the ecosystem in mind. What you provide is the signal of which
projects are most compelling to you, and this allows us to have a demand-driven approach in
developing our platform. We will focus first and foremost on technology that have highest
demand and interest from the community. We will be releasing our Kambria Vote code.

21. Is there any limitation when it comes to paying in Maker Credits, such as every 10
KAT you can only pay 5 credits?
Maker Credits will not be available at this time. Instead of offering bonuses in the form of Maker
Credits, we will be strengthening Kambria Karma, a non-tradeable ledger​ entry ​which tracks
track actual work performed. It is also an incentive to promote useful work and is awarded for
concrete contributions.
22. How would you verify the developers? One of the drawbacks of crowd funding is that
the team or corporate may bail out after they receive the fund, even if it’s only a portion
of the total budget. (think about the recent ICOs riot but on a relatively smaller scale)
Would there be a KYC process before developers register on the platform?
We recognize this issue and thus we do not plan on doing a public crowdsale. Instead, we are
working with 3rd party community management experts to curate the robotics community. All
developers and token purchasers are going through our KYC process.

23. What’s the plan to find hardware manufacturers? According to the white paper,
Kambria will have a full launch in the beginning of 2019. In other words, it’s only 6~8
months away from now. Also, the current VCs and advisors seem not having the
connections to resolve the “hardware” part of this project, except your own OhmniLabs.
Considering the sophisticated and diverse robotic solutions proposed by the community,
what are Kambria’s thoughts on this problem?

At first, OhmniLabs, the founding member of the Kambria Manufacturing Alliance will be the only
manufacturer fully equipped to build robotic parts. However, we already signed MOUs with other
manufacturers (current partners of OhmniLabs) in order to bring them on board when Kambria is
fully launched in 2019. Our major backers such as HASHED have extensive network in a myriad
of fields. They will be assisting us with making the proper connections with relevant hardware
companies. Additionally, we have partnerships with universities - some of which have 3D print
shops and could be ramped up to fulfill orders in Kambria.

- Why would anyone want to join Kambria Manufacturing Alliance? How are the hardware
manufacturers deal with the fact that your ICO token's dollar price will fluctuate *a lot*? (see the
number of all vendors who actually accept bitcoin)
-Given the fact that robots will eventually replace human in every aspect of our daily life, how
are we going to address and feed the booming global population? What sort of new job creation
in the pipeline? What else we can do beside sitting on the couch “Netflix and chill” all day simply
because there aren’t any human jobs left that can’t be done by robots??
How do you prevent forking? Or reduce impact of forking?
What if the price of robot services goes to 0? What would happen to the token?
What’s the incentives for Company A to put out the prizes instead of waiting for someone else to
do that job?
How do you imagine the platform will be?
Who will be the main buyers of the tokens in the beginning?
How do you prevent bias from experts for the R-prize
How to incentivize their hardware standards and APIs
How are we different with ROS?
How does the economics work out? Which use cases, scenarios?
What’s the biggest barriers to adoption? US seems a bit behind.
What partnerships we are most excited about, and why?
Governance: how is it going to work from a technological perspective? Who gets to vote on
what? What threshold of votes win? Etc
How is KDNA different? Why not just reuse existing package manager? What languages does
KDNA support? (+1 from a savvy meetup attendee in LA)
How are you gonna show the platform value - the market demand for it? (10k robots sold or
whatever, differentiation of forms)
-How does your experience from Ohmilabs transcend to Kambria?
-I love to see a robotics play and some serious player in this market, but Kambria looks to be
more marketplace than integrator.

Is it GitHub for robotics?


What’s the closest analogous structure to what we are doing?
Can you point to something wildly successful that we can point to that us doing for has done
something similar?
Is robotics your entry point? Could this be used for other verticals ?
Why robotics? Specifically from
a business point of view why robotics?
Is it just a passion project or a viable industry?
What do you use the tokens for? Seems like a value token primarily? Is this true?
ICO FAQs

1. Do we have any information on ICO? (and any other ICO related questions)

We have not released any information. Please stay tuned for future updates.

2. What is the link to your github repo?

3. If you had unlimited capital would you still do an ICO?

4. Why do you need KATs? How do you make sure incentives are fair and good
enough for innovators?

The purpose of KAT is not only to facilitate the interactions and transactions of the key
stakeholders on the platform, but also to align their incentives with the long-term success of the
community. As people collaborate to grow the ecosystem, everyone will benefit through KATs.
Making the incentives for the innovators/developers fair and sufficient is absolutely our top
priority. We have several mechanisms to achieve this, for example, one is an innovation
marketplace that allows the community to put a fair price/reward for the work of innovators.

5. How do maker credits work? Are they burned when spent or cycle back through
the system? If so, how?

6. How does Kambria Karma work? Please provide a sample use case.

7. What exchanges will KAT be listed on?

KyberNetwork

8. When do you mint KAT during the life of the Kambria community?
The number of Kambria tokens is fixed. There will be no minting. A portion of the tokens will be
set asides to incentivize development, contribution, and collaboration on the platform.

9. In the value capture mechanism example in the whitepaper, why does the 50 KATs
returned to the community have to be burned?

-The Kambria foundation seems to be playing a very strong role in keeping this crypto currency
going (e.g: hosting K-Prize competitions).-Who judge the winning solution once this become
decentralized? If I am an evil-robot company, I can just host a competition to collect all the
working implementations, then give reward money to a fake competitor which is my own people.

Rocky: Only point of concern, rather good to have feature should be to introduce robots for
industrial use as well on the Kambria platform. As i understand from the meetup that Kambria is
focusing on robots for home or personal uses rather than industrial use

Tranphuongchi: The flowchart on pg 31 is useful. A few things I found can be improved:


1.Flow chart on pg 31 have not shown the use of Karma and Maker Credit.
2. For the flow where Fiat is used, can you include Bitcoin or ETH etc..
3. On Legal, why award Karma to all KAT holders?
4. On interaction btw Devs/Robot companies with Kambria codebase, Why there is withdrawal?
what is standard practice for contribution and withdrawal of Development work? any
rewards/penalties involved?
5. What is the role of Krambia community fund in this chart?
INVESTORS FAQs
1. Where is Kambria registered?

Kambria International is registered in the Cayman Islands. Kambria International is a wholly


owned subsidiary of Kambria Foundation, a Delaware non-stock corporation.

2. Who are Kambria’s directors?

Dr. Thuc Vu, Jared Go, and Tingxi Tan

3. What intellectual property has Kambria created, registered, or applied to register?

Kambria purchased some intellectual property developed by the team at OhmniLabs, Inc. to
jumpstart the open innovation platform. Additionally, Kambria is using Apache License for open
technology. This is one of the most popular and open licensing models available which will help
promote the growth and usage of the platform.

4. What is the vesting schedule for Team & Advisors’ tokens? Is vesting for Team
and Advisors coded in the smart contract?

The vesting schedule for Team & Advisors’ tokens is a 6-month cliff, and 12-month vesting
schedule.

5. Which investors are able to invest in Kambria?

To invest in Kambria, one would need to go through a KYC review, conducted through Cynopsis
(​https://www.cynopsis-solutions.com/​). This process could be more stringent dependent on the
stage and amount. Investors in the pre-sale stages are also subjected to xx (countries
restriction?)

6. What is your applicable addressable market, how big is and how much does it
grow?

Our addressable market is the open innovation arena. The Kambria platform is starting with AI
and robotics; however, the protocol can support the exchange and delivery of innovative
solutions. The market for robotics and AI is currently at xx trillion dollars and is expected to
double by xx. The open innovation market is more difficult to estimate but it could be a several
multitudes higher than the Robotics and AI market.
7. Why do most financing of robotic projects fail today? And how are you a solution
to it?

8. Please provide a classical product road map of a robotics project incl different
value chain steps, timeline, risks and funding needs? Please compare it to your
solution with Kambria?

9. Can you provide an overview of how investors can contribute in new projects and
how you would attribute future license fees back to them?

10. How will the robotic developers be paid: in KAT or fiat?

Robotic developers would be paid in tokens.

11. What is the best proxy for price increases of KAT?

12. Please describe assumed project selection process and individuals responsible
for it. Is there market research done and engagement with potential users? Would
it be possible to achieve prepayment for product to be made (ie. Tesla collects
initial payment funds for their cars to be built in the future, so Tesla knows
demand is real)

13. Given each product has a cycle (idea generation, software development, design -
hardware development, testing, IP - copyright, manufacturing, sales to
consumers, delivery to end user), how do you plan to target each part of the cycle
to generate interest so it would be covered?

14. What are the steps you are taking to get ROS members on-board?
15. Have you done preliminary benefit analysis for each platform participant in
financial terms - software developers, hardware developers, manufacturers?

16. Can you share your Cap Table?

17. is your smart contract deployed for the ICO?

Yes.

18. Was your smart contract audited by an independent cybersecurity company?

19. Could i have a link to your github repo?

20. Do you have a working product available to test?

Yes. We have released the MVP (Minimal Viable Product) of Kambria platform. More details can
be found in our ​Medium blog post​.

21. Has the code for your product been published, and has is it been audited by an
independent cybersecurity company?

22. Are you using a reputable 3rd party for KYC verification? How safe is it to upload
my Identity Document on your site?

Our KYC review is conducted through Cynopsis (​https://www.cynopsis-solutions.com​). Investors


will not be asked to upload sensitive documents to our site.

23. Can US investors participate in the sale? If yes did you secure Reg-D?

Residents and citizens of the United States are not allowed to participate in the sale.
24. Where is my money going and what will it be used for? Is my money going to be
used to "cash out" others?

Collected funds will be allocated to the following categories. No funds will be used to “cash out”
others.

● 35% Engineering
○ Engineering for Kambria platform (solidity + dapps + tools)
○ Build, maintain, and improve Kambria Robotics SDK for devs
○ Engineering support for research and open source robotics code, ensuring
production quality
○ R&D to push the technology forward in the Kambria codebase, curate + maintain
● 35% Marketing & Community Development
○ Community management
○ Making cutting edge demos + PR for new applications and technology, building
excitement and helping people use the capabilities
○ Running K-prizes
○ Running token holder perks program (discount to makerspaces, tools, stores,
etc.)
○ Education programs, teaching, makerspace - share the methodology of ultra fast
and ultra lean robotics dev
● 20% Partnerships
○ Managing and supporting Kambria Manufacturing Alliance
○ Partnerships team (including university alliance + enterprise alliance)
○ Hand holding + onboarding partners
● 10% Operations

25. What specific rights come with my investment?

26. Are there financial statements? If so, are they audited, and by whom?

No, financial statements are not available yet, as Kambria was only formed in February 2018.

27. How, when, and at what cost can I sell my investment? For example, do I have a
right to give the token or coin back to the company or to receive a refund? Can I
resell the coin or token, and if so, are there any limitations on my ability to resell?

28. If a digital wallet is involved, what happens if I lose the key? Will I still have
access to my investment?

In the case a digital wallet is involved, your wallet key is personal and not stored by Kambria. As
such, you will not have access to your investment if you lose the key.

29. Has the offering been structured to comply with the securities laws and, if not,
what implications will that have for the stability of the enterprise and the value of
my investment?

30. What legal protections may or may not be available in the event of fraud, a hack,
malware, or a downturn in business prospects? Who will be responsible for
refunding my investment if something goes wrong?

In the event of fraud, a hack, or malware, we would try to mitigate and contain the situation to
the best of our ability. With regards to business prospect, wWe are on track to complete our
milestones and are optimistic about our platform’s success. Nevertheless, as indicated in our
SAFT within the Risks section, investors should understand that many risks are prevalent and
should be considered in their decision to invest.

31. If I do have legal rights, can I effectively enforce them and will there be adequate
funds to compensate me if my rights are violated?
32. What is the relationship between OhmniLabs and Kambria?

OhmniLabs and Kambria are two separate entities, founded by the same core team. However
you can think of them as two arms of an organization, one for-profit and one non-profit, similarly
to Linux Foundation and Ubuntu. Kambria Foundation will build out the ecosystems in which
OhmniLabs will play an important role in bootstrapping and facilitating each pillar of the
Kambria platform, as the following diagram illustrates.

33. Why can’t Kambria just go the normal open source route like other software projects
such as Gitlab or MongoDB?

Software has much lower costs for developers to learn and contribute. Any developers in their
spare times can spend couple hours a week to contribute. For hardware, the cost is much
higher. They will have to spend a lot more time to design a board, go find and buy the parts, and
spend money to make some prototypes. And there is no standard interface right now for people
to contribute stand-alone hardware modules.

If you check history of MongoDB and Gitlab, they were started quite a while ago, MongoDB in
2007 and GitLab in 2011. And GitLab recently raised series C with $20M in October 2017.
That’s probably getting to $100M-$200M in 8 years, which is a long time IMHO.
34. Why does Kambria use blockchain? Can Kambria project run without blockchain?

One of the most important reasons for Kambria to adopt blockchain is to build our own
tokenomics. This in turn allows us to bootstrap and build a community much faster and stronger
than any other traditional open source projects. If you think about it, the traditional ones either
need a lot of financial backing from a big company (like Android and Google) or at the mercy of
some developers donating their free time to the project (like Linux). Now with Kambria, using
our tokens we can actively acquire all the super cool technology that are still locked away in
patents and research labs, as well as reward developers who contribute to Kambria. But this is
not just a simple financial reward system. The ways we design Kambria and KAT incentivize
developers to submit high quality work as well as continue maintaining their work and
contributing to gain additional rewards. This is a very powerful game theoretical aspect of
Kambria.

The second benefit blockchain is bringing to Kambria is first time ever in the history, we can
break down the process of innovations from getting developed, produced/manufactured, to
commercialized, and allow different parties to tackle each piece separately while maintaining the
transparency and trust through blockchain and distributing all the upside through our
tokenomics. This way the best engineers can focus on making the best robots, while the best
entrepreneurs can focus on finding the best markets and use cases, and get fairly
compensated. If you think about it, this has massive implications for not just robotics but also all
other technology advancements in our society.

Third but also as important is the fact that the technology from Kambria will be open on
blockchain, so that people can maintain and develop on top of it, and the technology is own by
the community. AI and robotics are way too important to be own by just a few big corporations.
You can already see some of the abuses and privacy violations coming out of the largest social
network. We want to make sure that Kambria will better serve society as the whole.

35. Why can’t a big company launch a close platform that can compete with technologies
on Kambria?

A massive amount of resources in both talents and capital would be needed for a big company
to launch a close platform that could compete with technologies on Kambria. We have talked to
several big companies that spent tens of millions after a year to develop robots for internal use
and did not get anywhere. For example, Suitable Technologies spent around $50M+ so far, with
a team of 80 people, and launched their first telepresence robot after 5 years.

Moreover, traditional large companies cannot always attract the right talents. We have met the
brightest minds in the space working in other open-source projects or research labs, or just as
freelancers. With Kambria, we want to bring a lot of them on board as well as existing
technologies, in exchange for tokens. By using our tokens, with a huge potential and promise for
growth, we would probably need 10x less than the traditional capital that big companies need to
spend.

36. Why can’t a big company launch an open platform similar to Kambria?

There hasn’t been any open hardware platform coming from a big company. Or any substantial
open hardware platform at all in the market. The cost and time to build such a platform would be
very high going the traditional route without blockchain and tokenomics. Moreover, they won’t
have the trust of other big companies, other open-source projects, and non-profit entities to
contribute.

We will also have the first-mover advantage. Our project is gaining a lot of traction starting with
ROS and several universities. The growing community has already begun to contribute to the
development of the platform and building out the ecosystem.

37. Why can’t big companies just copy ideas from Kambria and develop those
themselves?

We believe if the cost is right, it’s in the company best interest to collaborate with Kambria to
license the technology from us, instead of spending resources to re-develop the technology, and
risk getting backlash from the community or getting a lawsuit.

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