Gui Cavalcanti | |
|---|---|
 Cavalcanti (right) at TechCrunch San Francisco 2016 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Olin College |
| Known for | Founding 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]
Cavalcanti studied engineering at Olin College. [4] [3]
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]
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