Gui Cavalcanti

Gui Cavalcanti is a robotics engineer who co-founded Open Source Medical Supplies,[1][2] Artisan's Asylum, and MegaBots Inc.[3]

## Contents

* 1 Education
* 2 Career
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Education[edit]

Cavalcanti studied engineering at Olin College[3]Kirsner, Scott (25 November 2016). "Does concept of huge battling robots as sport stand a fighting chance?". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2021-12-14.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: url-status (link)</ref> and worked as a professor there after graduation.[4]

## Career[edit]

Cavalcanti initially worked at Boston Dynamics, before creating communal workshop Artisan's Asylum|Artisan’s Asylum in Somerville, Massachusetts,Columnist, Scott Kirsner Globe; November 25; 2016; Comments, 6:00 a m Share on Facebook Share on TwitterView. "Does concept of huge battling robots as sport stand a fighting chance? - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2021-12-14. `{{cite web}}`: `|first4=` has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)</ref>[5] in 2010[6] which Wired (magazine)|Wired magazine reported as being the world's largest hackerspace.[7] In the same article, Wired described Cavalcanti as "insane".[7]

Cavalcanti co-founded California basedColumnist, Scott Kirsner Globe; November 25; 2016; Comments, 6:00 a m Share on Facebook Share on TwitterView. "Does concept of huge battling robots as sport stand a fighting chance? - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2021-12-14. `{{cite web}}`: `|first4=` has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)</ref> MegaBots Inc[8]., a company that built a giant fighting robot that appeared in the Guinness World Records|Guinness book of records[9] and on Jay Leno's Garage in 2018.[3] In 2015 Cavalcanti uploaded a video to YouTube inviting the team that owned and operated Japanese fighting robot Kuratas to a duel.[10]

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.[11]

## References[edit]

1. ↑ 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.
2. ↑ Bambury, Brent (20 March 2020). "Robotics engineer crowd-sources designs for COVID-19 medical supplies to help out-of-stock hospitals". CBC.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "No Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Here: Behold A U.S. Vs. Japan Giant Robot Duel". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
4. ↑ Winkelman, Sandy., Johnson, Brian David. 21st Century Robot: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories. United States: Make Community, LLC, 2014.
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. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Flaherty, Joe. "Building Stompy the Giant Robot Inside the World's Biggest Hackerspace". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
8. ↑ Nagelhout, Ryan. Fighting Robots. United States: PowerKids Press, 2016. pp26
9. ↑ "Largest robots to fight". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
10. ↑ Sone, Yuji. Japanese Robot Culture: Performance, Imagination, and Modernity. United States: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. pp125
11. ↑ 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.

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