Our May 2015 Robotics
Cluster meeting was attended by 40+ MTLC members, standing room only! After “around the room introductions”, as is
customary at our meetings, Josh Lessing gave us a look at Soft Robotics, taking
Harvard research to soft grippers with their first sale just THIS month! He spoke of understanding the customer need,
solving their problem, and their process – stressing the importance of
balancing adaptability, complexity and cost.
Cluster meeting was attended by 40+ MTLC members, standing room only! After “around the room introductions”, as is
customary at our meetings, Josh Lessing gave us a look at Soft Robotics, taking
Harvard research to soft grippers with their first sale just THIS month! He spoke of understanding the customer need,
solving their problem, and their process – stressing the importance of
balancing adaptability, complexity and cost.
Tye Brady, Distinguished Member of Technical
Staff at Draper Laboratory, discussed his findings and recommendations for
enabling UAS growth within Massachusetts a result of the MAAVRIC (Massachusetts
Autonomous Air Vehicle Research and Innovation Consortium) study completed
earlier this year.
Staff at Draper Laboratory, discussed his findings and recommendations for
enabling UAS growth within Massachusetts a result of the MAAVRIC (Massachusetts
Autonomous Air Vehicle Research and Innovation Consortium) study completed
earlier this year.
Soft Robotics demo box
Kenn Sebesta with CyPhy’s LVL 1 Drone
Charlie Grinnell, Founder & COO of
Harvest Automation gave a brief history of the company and new growth areas
they are pursuing. We later received a
tour of their ecommerce test site and a live demonstration.
There was no shortage of live demonstrations
during this meeting. We were treated by
Kenn Sebesta to a demonstration of Cy Phy’s LVL 1 Drone – which Kenn flew
indoors: < click here 1 > This
project has almost doubled its funding goal with Kickstarter and will be funded
on 18 June 2015.
during this meeting. We were treated by
Kenn Sebesta to a demonstration of Cy Phy’s LVL 1 Drone – which Kenn flew
indoors: < click here 1 > This
project has almost doubled its funding goal with Kickstarter and will be funded
on 18 June 2015.
After a long networking break, many in the
group ventured over to the Harvest warehousing test site to watch the TM-100 in
action. This is a distribution/fulfillment
robot available for purchase next Spring 2016.
See this bot in action < click here 2 >
group ventured over to the Harvest warehousing test site to watch the TM-100 in
action. This is a distribution/fulfillment
robot available for purchase next Spring 2016.
See this bot in action < click here 2 >
