It's been mentioned numerous times in the forums and if you have pre-ordered you will have received an email explaining all.

Quote:

Unexpected Demand EZ-Robot Revolution sales have exceeded our expectation - which have also exceeded our previous manufacturing capabilities. As the demand to experience our revolutionary product increased, we also had to increase our manufacturing arrangement. The previous manufacturer did not have the resources to complete the plastic product molds in a reasonable amount of time. This required us to travel across the world many times (once with only 2 days' notice) to interview and source a new scalable manufacturing solution. This has caused a short unexpected delay in shipping of approximately 30-45 days.

If you missed the email you can read it here

I seem to only be getting automated thread emails. Thanks though!

Just to add, that email was sent on December 4th, so add 30-45 days, and barring any further updates, pre-orders should ship early to mid January.

Alan

Just remember " Coming Soon "

Just like I tell the Grand-kids, "It'll be here when it gets here".

It's been in development for over 12 months, if not longer. It's only been announced for, at best 6 months.

Most people are excited to see the progress on the V4 and how it has evolved, unfortunately you land in the minority with not wanting to even know about it until it's available. However, going by the demand (which is the main factor in it's delay), it would be out of stock pretty much as soon as it was made available which is no better than "coming soon".

There are many reasons why it is a good idea to announce new products before release too, for instance to gauge what the demand will be like but more importantly, at least for me, to give information to those who wish to see it. I've been working on another robot for the best part of 6 months now, if I hadn't known of the V4 my plans would most likely have taken a lot more work to change in order to accommodate the V4. Knowing about it has helped me plan it out much better and has allowed me to design it in such a way that it will save me headaches and money by using the V4s features. Knowing that you can link more than 5 together has also allowed me to look at adding additional features and functions which I would not have been able to do with the V3.

I'm not really too sure what the negatives are to knowing as much information as possible about future developments other than the waiting time (which I'd rather have to deal with than not knowing).

I agree Rich , knowing about product development in the this product field is very important. This benefits the business and product development because the hype gets conversations started about what the potential and current customers want or more specifically what their expectations are for the coming products. On the other hand stress it also benefits the customer because getting into a pre order means you get more for your money because the development is ongoing. You literally get the most for your dollar.

Think about other known brand names , Intel magellin, raspberry pi, arduino uno ect. They were all announced with expected features a year before they were even available. This difference is that ez robot uses feedback to further product development during this pre order period and the customers who are already privileged to learn about ez robot have a option to get the product at a low price. Those other products didn't do any serious advancements since they were announced and offered no opportunities to save money getting in the door early.

My dad was the one that wanted to know (he's slightly impatient), but it's nice to know this just the same. Thanks again!