Biography:Gui Cavalcanti

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Short description: Robotics, community and PPE entrepreneur
Gui Cavalcanti
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Cavalcanti (right) at TechCrunch San Francisco 2016
NationalityAmerican
Alma materOlin 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]

Education

Cavalcanti studied engineering at Olin College[4][3] and worked as a professor there after graduation.[5]

Career

Cavalcanti initially worked at Boston Dynamics, before creating communal workshop Artisan's Asylum in Somerville, Massachusetts,[3][6] in 2010[7] which Wired magazine reported as being the world's largest hackerspace.[8]

Cavalcanti co-founded California based[3] MegaBots Inc.,[9] a company that built a giant fighting robot that appeared in the Guinness book of records[10] and on Jay Leno's Garage in 2018.[3][4][11][12] In 2015 Cavalcanti uploaded a video to YouTube inviting the team that owned and operated Japanese fighting robot Kuratas to a duel.[13]

Cavalcanti stars in the movie The Giant Robot Duel: MegaBots vs. Suidobashi.[12]

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.[14]

See also

  • Artisan's Asylum
  • MegaBots Inc.

References

  1. Petri, Alexandra E. (2020-03-31). "D.I.Y. Coronavirus Solutions Are Gaining Steam" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/science/coronavirus-masks-equipment-crowdsource.html. 
  2. Bambury, Brent (20 March 2020). "Robotics engineer crowd-sources designs for COVID-19 medical supplies to help out-of-stock hospitals". CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/futures-on-hold-3d-printed-medical-gear-rem-s-mike-mills-choir-choir-choir-the-story-of-purell-and-more-1.5502663/robotics-engineer-crowd-sources-designs-for-covid-19-medical-supplies-to-help-out-of-stock-hospitals-1.5502671. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Kirsner, Scott (25 November 2016). "Does concept of huge battling robots as sport stand a fighting chance?" (in en-US). https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/11/25/does-concept-huge-battling-robots-sport-stand-fighting-chance-megabots-counting/m9v7AeNARwojctjOWUwf3I/story.html. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 "No Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Here: Behold A U.S. Vs. Japan Giant Robot Duel" (in en). NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/2017/10/17/558092970/no-rock-em-sock-em-here-behold-a-u-s-vs-japan-giant-robot-duel. 
  5. Winkelman, Sandy., Johnson, Brian David. 21st Century Robot: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories. United States: Make Community, LLC, 2014.
  6. 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
  7. Leigh, Nancey G.., Blakely, Dr. Edward J.. Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice. United States: SAGE Publications, 2016.
  8. Flaherty, Joe. "Building Stompy the Giant Robot Inside the World's Biggest Hackerspace" (in en-US). Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. https://www.wired.com/2012/08/artisans-asylum-hackerspace-builds-stompy-the-giant-robot/. Retrieved 2021-12-14. 
  9. Nagelhout, Ryan. Fighting Robots. United States: PowerKids Press, 2016. pp26
  10. "Largest robots to fight" (in en-gb). 17 October 2017. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/501270-largest-robots-to-fight. 
  11. "Jay Leno pilots a $2.5 million giant fighting robot" (in en). 2018-04-26. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/04/26/jay-leno-pilots-a-2-point-5-million-giant-fighting-robot.html. 
  12. 12.0 12.1 "Gui Cavalcanti". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5660922/bio. 
  13. Sone, Yuji. Japanese Robot Culture: Performance, Imagination, and Modernity. United States: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. pp125
  14. Hannah, Douglas (2021-02-16). "One Way to Build More Resilient Medical Supply Chains in the U.S.". Harvard Business Review. ISSN 0017-8012. https://hbr.org/2021/02/one-way-to-build-more-resilient-medical-supply-chains-in-the-u-s.