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Braigo Labs

Posted by YoungLB18 
· Tuesday, November 20th, 2018 
· 1 Comment

Meet Shubham Banerjee, a 17 year old boy who decided to solve a problem that has hindered a community for years. The Blind community has struggled with having access to braille, “the tactile writing system used by the visually impaired”, thus creating everyday life a challenge difficult to overcome. Banerjee decided that it was time for a change and took matters into his own hands.

Braigo Labs CEO Shubham Banerjee

Before starting Braigo Labs, Banerjee had no idea what braille even was. He came across it one day and talked to his parents about it. After doing some research and realizing that Braille printers can cost upwards of $2,000 he decided to do something about it. He told business insider, “When I found out the cost of a Braille printer, I was shocked, I just wanted to help the visually impaired. I had a Lego Robotics kit, so I asked, ‘Why not just try that?'” (Business Insider).  The small step of creating a printer with his legos grew into a full blown company able to help the 285 million visually impaired people in the world.

After a few prototypes he became recognized in outlets such as The Tech Awards 2014 and The White House Maker Faire. The reason his product is so influential is because a Braigo Labs printer will cost under $500 thus making it more affordable for the visually impaired around the world. He wants the visually impaired even in developing countries to have access to Braille.

Braigo Labs

The First Braigo Labs Prototype.

Entrepreneurs can learn from Shubham Banerjee because he came across a niche community that had a huge gap and decided to fill it in a new and cost-effective way. One thing I found super interesting about Banerjee’s story is that he did not know anything about braille or the blind community before wanting to make a change. You do not have to be an expert on a topic or have worked with an organization for 20 years to make a change, all you need is a compassionate heart and a lego kit.

 

Kim, Eugene. “This 13-Year-Old Is So Impressive, Intel Is Investing Hundreds Of Thousands In His Startup.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 9 Nov. 2014, www.businessinsider.com/shubham-banerjee-braigo-labs-2014-11.

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Categories : Robotics, Social Entrepreneur, Technology

Flying High

Posted by hagandw17 
· Sunday, October 14th, 2018 
· 5 Comments

In the exploding world of novel technologies, drones have captured many people’s attention. Drones combine ease, stability, and a small learning curve with speed, agility, and often video capability that takes RC enthusiasts to new heights and gives creators new ways to capture footage.

One company rising in through the crowded pool of drone products is Teal. Teal was founded by George Matus when he was 18. Drones caught George’s eye when he was in middle school and he began to tinker, fly, and come up with a wish list for features not yet available in drones of the time. Now Matus is 18 and with $2.8 million in seed funding he has launched Teal into the sky of drone production. Teal and George Matus work as a perfect example of pure passion driving a business to profitability.

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Categories : Business, Engineering, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Robotics, Technology

Robotic Farming

Posted by FilbyGC1 
· Monday, October 8th, 2018 
· 2 Comments

It seems like something straight out of science fiction, but indoor “vertical farming” might just be the future of agriculture. Bowery Farming is a kale-filled farming startup located in northern New Jersey. Irving Fain, the Co-Founder and CEO, wants to connect one of the world’s largest industries with cutting-edge technology.

This modern farming company is pursuing a mission which might just change the future of food and agriculture. Bowery Farming’s proprietary software makes this company so unique. The software makes critical decisions like when to harvest and when to water each plant.

Bowery Farming wants to leverage automation and software with controlled, indoor environments to create a new way of growing food locally.  Bowery Farming boast that their facilities are over 100x more productive than the same amount of farmland while using no pesticides and 95% less water.

Irving Fain and Bowery Farming want to give the world improved access to healthier food by better utilizing the resources around us.

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Categories : Agriculture, Engineering, Robotics, Technology

Gecko Robotics

Posted by kriscaroline 
· Monday, October 8th, 2018 
· 4 Comments

 

Valuing safety first, Gecko Robotics was co-founded by Jake Loosararian with the intent to help save lives that are at risk when inspecting boilers and tanks at industries. Gecko Robotics is a company that founded in 2016 and has since then grown from 15 employee to 50 and a net worth of $7 million continues to expand more. There are multiple Grove City College Alumni that are involved in the company such as Loosararian, Ian Miller, Josh Moore, Alex Watt, and potentially more. These men took the core values, incredibly devoted work ethic, and pursuit for solving problems that Grove City College engraved in them during their college years and applied it directly to the company.

The services that are offered by Gecko Robotics are boiler inspections, tank inspections, and scrubber inspections. The boiler inspections offer the services to detect when degradation forms in water walls from ash and soot – blower erosion graphitization, under-deposit corrosion, thermal fatigue cracking, and creep damage. With the cutting-edge technology, the robotic inspector can gather thickness data around the complete surface of each Water Wall Tube. Inspecting tanks can be catastrophic and life threatening which is why consistent scheduled inspections are the key to preventing tank failure. Finally, the scrubbers used give ultrasound and visual inspections so robots can inspect both the cones and vertical walls to identify patterns of wall thinning.

Reviews from industries that have used Gecko Robotics have only positive words to say about the company. Companies that would could have had a detrimental loss or an outage that would have impacted the productivity are indebted to the services for their safety, reliability and technology. Even Steve Westly, entrepreneur and  CFO of the State of California, and other successful entrepreneurs are investing in Gecko Robotics because they see the growth that is to come for the company.

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Categories : Robotics, Services

Helen Greiner: Inventor of the First Robotic Vacuum

Posted by dudtpr1 
· Thursday, December 7th, 2017 
· 5 Comments

Helen Greiner is the c0-founder of iRobot, which she helped to start as a result of her interest in robots. Greiner’s enthusiasm for these intriguing machines came from her fondness for R2-D2 in Star Wars and her desire to create something between a robot and a computer, similar to the one that her dad would bring home from work (shown below).

The idea, in Greiner’s mind, was to create something that would, more or less, have a mind of its own. iRobot’s first  success was a talking doll. After that, the company started working on a vacuum cleaner with SC Johnson Professional. The vacuum was a human sized robot that ran by itself, but the engineers understood that it would potentially be too dangerous at its current size. As a result they focused on building a smaller vacuum that would be more efficient. During this time, iRobot also aided in creating robots that would detect and defuse bombs, building contracts with the military for hundreds of millions of dollars. Since then, iRobot has engaged in other advancements in the robot industry, such as drones. Ms. Greiner helped start CyPhy Works, a drone specific company. CyPhy Works builds drones mostly for military and industrial use.  One example is the testing Greiner did with UPS for delivering packages. It was very successful.

Learn more: https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/06/flux-robot-queen-helen-greiner-on-robots-drones-and-the-self-aware-roomba/

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Categories : Military, Robotics, Sci Fi Inspiration
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