Little Robot Friends

The vendor's About page describes founders Ann and Mark as a husband-and-wife team who also run the Toronto exhibit-design studio Aesthetec Studio, and no acquisition, parent company, or outside investor turned up in press coverage; grants from the Women Entrepreneurship Fund and Canada Media Fund are non-equity. Corporations Canada's federal registry has no record for Little Robot Friends or Aesthetec Studio, consistent with provincial incorporation, but the Ontario Business Registry's search portal is an interactive form that could not be queried without a browser session, so ownership rests on the vendor's own account rather than a registry filing.

• Press – Little Robot Friends vendor_statement “Little Robot Friends received a $100K grant from the Women Entrepreneurship Fund”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Corporations Canada registry “0 results were found, 0 returned.”
• Little Robot Friends Inc. | Toronto, ON, Canada Startup directory

The vendor's hiring page lists in-house production work at the Toronto studio including soldering, sorting inventory, and packing boxes, and a company blog post describes staff hand-assembling and packing a 1,000-unit batch of Cubby robots at their table. Neither source says where the populated circuit boards, enclosures, or the accelerometer, microphone, and RGB LED components on Cubby's board are fabricated, so the larger overseas share is an estimate based on how small hardware makers typically source board assembly, not a documented figure.

• Join Our Team – Little Robot Friends vendor_statement “Production support: Lending a hand in our studio with production, it could be soldering, sorting inventory, packing boxes. We do lots of things in house and can always use a hand!”
• My Four Year Adventure with Little Robot Friends! (And Saying Goodbye) vendor_statement “All hands were on deck to build 1000 robots that were shipped across Canada... our whole team gets to sit around the table to assemble and pack bots together (yes, we do it all by hand).”
• Cubby Robot Kit – Little Robot Friends vendor_statement “1x Cubby robot (fully-assembled)”

The vendor's About, Contact, and Hiring pages all give a single location, 1832 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, and the hiring page describes the team as easily reached by subway in the Toronto east end with no mention of any other office. This is a single-site business with no evidence of staff outside Canada.

• Contact – Little Robot Friends vendor_statement “1832 Danforth Avenue Toronto, ON M4C 1H8 CANADA”
• Join Our Team – Little Robot Friends vendor_statement “easily located on the subway line in relaxed Toronto east-end neighborhood”

No page found states where Cubby's LEDs, microphone, accelerometer, or rechargeable battery, or Paperbot's LEDs, resistors, conductive tape, and coin cell battery, are sourced from; these are commodity electronic parts that small hardware makers typically buy from Asian suppliers, so the mix leans heavily overseas as an estimate. The storefront itself runs on Shopify, a Canadian platform, and is the vendor's only sales channel.

• Paperbot Kit – Little Robot Friends vendor_statement “2x single color LEDs (for the eyes), 65cm of conductive tape, binder clip, 3x resistors, 1x coin cell battery”
• Cubby Robot Kit – Little Robot Friends vendor_statement “2x RGB (red / green / blue) LED eyes, microphone, photocell (light sensor), accelerometer (motion sensor), rechargeable battery”