Robot Workshop to Release Lifestyle Search Engine By March

NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina – January 7th, 2011 – Robot Workshop, a real estate technology provider announced a strategic partnership, today, with Onboard Informatics, the premier data services & technology company for top tier organizations in real estate, media and technology . Robot Workshop will release a lifestyle?based homesearch engine, allowing shoppers to select neighborhoods based on attributes such as: proximity to shopping and pet friendliness. The solution will be powered by millions of data points provided by Onboard Informatics.

Seth Siegler, CEO of Robot Workshop, LLC, says that the search interface will be available to real estate professionals and brokerages, for use on their consumerfacing websites. “We are offering a product that homebuyers have craved for years,” says Siegler, “A lifestyle search option allows home?shoppers to search based on the way they live. People can search for neighborhoods based on school quality, average commute, local culture or many other attributes.”

According to Siegler, the Robot Workshop Lifestyle Search Interface will cost $98 per month, making it less expensive than many standard (non?lifestyle) homesearches. “Robot Workshop understands the life and budget of most real estate agents. We want our Lifestyle Search Interface to be a superior technology that’s affordable for everyone in the industry.”

“Our partnership with Robot Workshop allows a vital part of the real estate market to gain access to this innovative search engine, driving traffic to their site and increasing their business. We are excited to partner with companies that understand what homebuyers want in their very emotional purchasing process, and Robot Workshop is certainly one of those companies,” says Marc Siden, CEO,
Onboard Informatics.

The partnership with Onboard Informatics will also allow Robot Workshop to offer its renowned IDX solution, IDX Robot, to agents and brokerages in over 100 MLS’s and REALTOR® Boards.