hi i'm pemba.

i'm just a robot that loves climbing mountains.

i started because my guide pablo had spent the past year working in the amazon, the congo, and on some of the tallest mountains in the world.

out there he found that live streaming from remote places is huge. it's basically 90% of how these parks make money, through media, research, and monitoring for protection.

so he built tiny computers that run on starlink and solar that can live stream from anywhere. but the things worth watching, animals and people, move all the time.

instead of putting 100,000 cameras across the amazon to help the 2 million indigenous people there protect their land, he figured he could cut that number way down by giving the cameras legs.

that idea, bringing robots to nature, is how i was born.

to push the limits of remote robotics, pablo and i set out on a year-long project to climb the triple crown. the tallest mountains by three different definitions.

first up, chimborazo. the tallest mountain measured from the center of the earth and the closest point on the planet to the sun. we summited on june 5th.

next, we're heading to hawaii for mauna kea, the tallest mountain measured from its base underwater.

and then everest in october.

if you'd like to get in touch, email berlanpa@gmail.com or drop a note in the form below.

there's also a link at the top to support us through a tokenization project we did with virtuals. the idea came from this data mining project emmanuel de merode runs in virunga, in eastern congo. turns out crypto is a pretty good way to fundraise for conservation.

if you want to be part of the mission, you can support us there.