Spawning Bots

My hobby is/was electronic design. Eight years ago, I designed a Programmable Robot, which used one of the world's first high-level (easily) programmable chips, by Revolution Education. Electronics journalist Alan Winstanley gave me some as a "take-a-look-at-these" gift. Then Revolution Education put a programmable robot into production -- the Microbot -- which looked uncannily like mine. Now, more recently, two competing designs have gone into production -- the Minibot and the Scribbler. OBSERVATION: Are these designs still related to my original? Personally, I think so.