Gui Cavalcanti

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Gui Cavalcanti
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Cavalcanti (right) at TechCrunch San Francisco 2016
Alma mater Olin College
Known forFounding Open Source Medical Supplies, Artisan's Asylum, and MegaBots Inc.

Gui Cavalcanti is a robotics engineer who co-founded Open Source Medical Supplies, [1] [2] Artisan's Asylum, [3] and MegaBots Inc. [4]

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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

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Bambury, Brent (20 March 2020). "Robotics engineer crowd-sources designs for COVID-19 medical supplies to help out-of-stock hospitals". CBC.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Kirsner, Scott (25 November 2016). "Does concept of huge battling robots as sport stand a fighting chance?". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  4. 1 2 3 "No Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Here: Behold A U.S. Vs. Japan Giant Robot Duel". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ Leigh, Nancey G.., Blakely, Dr. Edward J.. Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice. United States: SAGE Publications, 2016.
  7. ↑ Flaherty, Joe. "Building Stompy the Giant Robot Inside the World's Biggest Hackerspace". Wired. ISSN   1059-1028 . Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  8. ↑ Nagelhout, Ryan. Fighting Robots. United States: PowerKids Press, 2016. pp26
  9. ↑ "Largest robots to fight". Guinness World Records. 17 October 2017. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  10. ↑ "Jay Leno pilots a $2.5 million giant fighting robot". CNBC. 2018-04-26. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  11. 1 2 "Gui Cavalcanti". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  12. ↑ Sone, Yuji. Japanese Robot Culture: Performance, Imagination, and Modernity. United States: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. pp125
  13. ↑ 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.
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