Gui Cavalcanti Explained

Gui Cavalcanti
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, and MegaBots Inc.[3]

Education

Cavalcanti studied engineering at Olin College.[4]

Career

Cavalcanti initially worked at Boston Dynamics, before creating communal workshop Artisan's Asylum in Somerville, Massachusetts,[4] [5] in 2010[6] which Wired magazine reported as being the world's largest hackerspace.[7]

Cavalcanti co-founded California based[4] 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.[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.

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

Notes and References

  1. News: Petri. Alexandra E.. 2020-03-31. D.I.Y. Coronavirus Solutions Are Gaining Steam. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-12-14. 0362-4331.
  2. News: Bambury. Brent. 20 March 2020. Robotics engineer crowd-sources designs for COVID-19 medical supplies to help out-of-stock hospitals. CBC.
  3. News: No Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Here: Behold A U.S. Vs. Japan Giant Robot Duel. en. NPR.org. 2021-12-14.
  4. Web site: Kirsner. Scott. 25 November 2016. Does concept of huge battling robots as sport stand a fighting chance?. 2021-12-14. Boston Globe. en-US.
  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. en-US. Wired. 2021-12-14. 1059-1028.
  8. Nagelhout, Ryan. Fighting Robots. United States: PowerKids Press, 2016. pp26
  9. Web site: Largest robots to fight. 2021-12-14. Guinness World Records. 17 October 2017 . en-gb.
  10. Web site: 2018-04-26. Jay Leno pilots a $2.5 million giant fighting robot. 2021-12-29. CNBC. en.
  11. Web site: Gui Cavalcanti. 2021-12-29. IMDb.
  12. Sone, Yuji. Japanese Robot Culture: Performance, Imagination, and Modernity. United States: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. pp125
  13. News: Hannah. Douglas. 2021-02-16. One Way to Build More Resilient Medical Supply Chains in the U.S.. Harvard Business Review. 2021-12-14. 0017-8012.

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