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Gui Cavalcanti
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Gui Cavalcanti is a robotics engineer who co-founded Open Source Medical Supplies,[1][2] Artisan's Asylum,[3] and MegaBots Inc.[4]
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Education
Cavalcanti studied engineering at Olin College.[4][3]
Career
Cavalcanti initially worked at Boston Dynamics, before creating communal workshop Artisan's Asylum in Somerville, Massachusetts,[3][5] in 2010[6] which Wired magazine reported as being the world's largest hackerspace.[7]
Cavalcanti co-founded California based[3] 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.[3][4][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.[11]
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]
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