Found by typing in “robot” into kickstarter.
Successes:
telepresence: Romo, Oculus (our friend Colin in Vancouver), Botiful, Robodance,
hexapod: Hexy, Stompy (our friends Gui + crew at the Artisan’s Asylum in Somerville, MA)
multicopter: transforming multicopter
Other: troller hobby robot
Music: “Gamelatron” (NYC buddies)
Failures:
Telepresence: Oddwerx
Scanning robot: Gado
military: “paintball car”
Walking machine: Cheebot
arm: Baccus
Art bot: botspot
Major Failures (projects that I would have guessed would do great): “Shimi“, “HyQ walking machine“, “Melody Man“, “Muralizer”
Crowdfunding Papers:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2088298