Gui Cavalcanti is a robotics engineer who co-founded Open Source Medical Supplies, Artisan's Asylum, and MegaBots Inc.
Education Cavalcanti studied engineering at Olin College.
Career Cavalcanti initially worked at Boston Dynamics, before creating communal workshop Artisan's Asylum in Somerville, Massachusetts,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 in 2010Leigh, Nancey G.., Blakely, Dr. Edward J.. Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice. United States: SAGE Publications, 2016. which Wired magazine reported as being the world's largest hackerspace.
Cavalcanti co-founded California based MegaBots Inc.,Nagelhout, Ryan. Fighting Robots. United States: PowerKids Press, 2016. pp26 a company that built a giant fighting robot that appeared in the Guinness book of records and on Jay Leno's Garage in 2018. In 2015 Cavalcanti uploaded a video to YouTube inviting the team that owned and operated Japanese fighting robot Kuratas to a duel.Sone, Yuji. Japanese Robot Culture: Performance, Imagination, and Modernity. United States: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. pp125
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.
See also Artisan's Asylum MegaBots Inc.
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