History

Intro to robotics

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• First year university 3 of us connected, started working on various robotics projects and really falling in love
• Less lectures, more hands on experiments 
• Made robotic arms, rovers, electric skateboards, agvs

Learnings: Everything from mechanical design, to ROS to embedded systems

Working with McMaster to build a ‘smart factory’

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• McMaster had seen the various projects we worked on, and contracted us to work on North America's first industry 4.0. 
• A futuristic factory, showcasing a future of “flexible automation” 
• Led by Dr Ishwar Singh 
• We worked on IoT boards, robotic arms, CNC automation, motor winding stations and more.

Learnings: Dove deeper into industry automation, vision processing systems, and industrial robotics

Autonomous Vehicles & Smart Cities

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• Continued to do contract work while going to school, helping fund our robotics passion projects 
• Built our university’s first autonomous vehicle (golf cart turned self driving shuttle)
• Experimented with “edge nodes”, infrastructure mounted sensors to support smart shuttles 
• Autonomous robotic charging systems

Learnings:
- Autonomous navigation systems
- Path planning / mapping algorithms
- Sensor fusion, mixing lidar / radar / cameras

Robotic deep dive, looking to commercialize

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• Wanted to take things to the next level by productizing on a robot 
• Explored quadrupeds, drones, robotic arms, robotic teaching kits and eventually cinema motion control systems

Robotic deep dive, looking to commercialize

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• Launched Axibo Cinema, creating advanced, low cost robotic systems for the cinema world 
• Developed a deep partnership with Netflix working on volumetric capture technology

Learnings:
- Bootstraped company to $10M revenue
- Manufacturing real world products
- Scaling a business
- In house manufacturing
- Cost optimized designs

Back to our first love

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• Raised 11m from investors
• Providing 1m of our own capital 
• All in on humanoid robotics