Thymio has been developed in the context of a collaboration between the MOBOTS group of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and the Lausanne Arts School (ECAL). Mobsya association took part in the development and managed production and distribution.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/index.php/blog/show/introducing-thymio-an-educational-robot