Gui Cavalcanti is a robotics engineer who co-founded Open Source Medical Supplies,[1][2] Artisan's Asylum,[3] and MegaBots Inc.[4]
Gui Cavalcanti | |
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.jpg) 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. |
Education
editCavalcanti studied engineering at Olin College.[4][3]
Career
editCavalcanti 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
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.