Robotics, community and PPE entrepreneur
Gui Cavalcanti is a robotics engineer who co-founded Open Source Medical Supplies ,[ 1] [ 2] Artisan's Asylum ,[ 3] and MegaBots Inc. [ 4]
Education
Cavalcanti studied engineering at Olin College .[ 4] [ 3]
Career
Cavalcanti initially worked at Boston Dynamics , before creating communal workshop Artisan's Asylum in Somerville, Massachusetts ,[ 3] [ 5] in 2010[ 6] which Wired magazine reported as being the world's largest hackerspace .[ 7]
Cavalcanti co-founded California based[ 3] MegaBots Inc.,[ 8] a company that built a giant fighting robot that appeared in the Guinness book of records [ 9] and on Jay Leno's Garage in 2018.[ 3] [ 4] [ 10] [ 11] In 2015 Cavalcanti uploaded a video to YouTube inviting the team that owned and operated Japanese fighting robot Kuratas to a duel .[ 12]
Cavalcanti stars in the movie The Giant Robot Duel: MegaBots vs. Suidobashi. [ 11]
In 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic , Cavalcanti co-founded Open Source Medical Supplies, an organization that collates and shared open source designs for medical supplies.[ 13]
See also
References
^ Petri, Alexandra E. (2020-03-31). "D.I.Y. Coronavirus Solutions Are Gaining Steam" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-12-14 .
^ Bambury, Brent (20 March 2020). "Robotics engineer crowd-sources designs for COVID-19 medical supplies to help out-of-stock hospitals" . CBC .
^ a b c d e Kirsner, Scott (25 November 2016). "Does concept of huge battling robots as sport stand a fighting chance?" . Boston Globe . Retrieved 2021-12-14 .
^ a b c "No Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Here: Behold A U.S. Vs. Japan Giant Robot Duel" . NPR.org . Retrieved 2021-12-14 .
^ Dougherty, Dale. Free to Make: How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds. United States: North Atlantic Books, 2016. pp67
^ Leigh, Nancey G.., Blakely, Dr. Edward J.. Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice. United States: SAGE Publications, 2016.
^ Flaherty, Joe. "Building Stompy the Giant Robot Inside the World's Biggest Hackerspace" . Wired . ISSN 1059-1028 . Retrieved 2021-12-14 .
^ Nagelhout, Ryan. Fighting Robots. United States: PowerKids Press, 2016. pp26
^ "Largest robots to fight" . Guinness World Records . 17 October 2017. Retrieved 2021-12-14 .
^ "Jay Leno pilots a $2.5 million giant fighting robot" . CNBC . 2018-04-26. Retrieved 2021-12-29 .
^ a b "Gui Cavalcanti" . IMDb . Retrieved 2021-12-29 .
^ Sone, Yuji. Japanese Robot Culture: Performance, Imagination, and Modernity. United States: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. pp125
^ Hannah, Douglas (2021-02-16). "One Way to Build More Resilient Medical Supply Chains in the U.S." Harvard Business Review . ISSN 0017-8012 . Retrieved 2021-12-14 .