CEO of WowWee, Richard Yanofsky, joins Digital Dream Labs as President
Summary
His company, WowWee, has turned the dancing, kung fu-kicking biomorphic humanoid Robosapien into more than a toy. “It’s great to have someone with mass market experience join our team at Digital Dream Labs, says CEO Jacob Hanchar. “It has the ability to see with 99.99% accuracy…There’s nothing like the excitement of taking an inanimate object and animating it, giving it personality, bringing it to life.” Yanofsky will be President, along with CEO Hanchar, helping Digital Dream Labs grow its products. “As founder of WowWee, we’ve had some major hits with Robosapien and Roboraptor, which are really at the forefront of consumer entertainment robotics,” notes Yanofsky. “I think Jacob has come up with a simple, elegant and disruptive approach to bringing robots to life.” About Digital Dream Labs With 3+ million customers, Digital Dream Labs (DDL) is an award-winning robotic AI companion company that develops engaging learning solutions and consumer robots for people of all ages -- transforming the way science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) topics are taught, pre-K to adult -- around the world.