International and Multistate Shipments of Tensegrity Robots
Squishy Robotics’ engineering team members were busy building and shipping robots in April. Our new generation of robots were sent to several states and to Australia.
Squishy Robotics is UC Startup Innovation Challenge Finalist
Squishy Robotics was selected as one of 10 finalists for the University of California 2021 Startup Innovation Challenge. The Innovation Challenge is held in partnership with Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), the world’s largest tech-for-good startup competition. As a chosen finalist, Squishy Robotics made a pitch at the Global Corporate Venturing Digital Forum in late January 2021.
Squishy Robotics Wins Silicon Valley Robotics Industry Award
Squishy Robotics was among the recipients of the inaugural “Good Robot” Industry Awards presented by the non-profit industry association, Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR). The SVR Industry Awards celebrate the robotics, automation, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) that will help the world solve global challenges.
Partner Spotlight: Blueforce
Blueforce Development Corporation develops software that shares and disseminates data among people, systems, and machines. Helping people form secure workgroups using mobile devices, Blueforce (which is based in Newburyport, MA) has built a customer base among military, homeland security, law enforcement, and emergency response personnel.
Voice of America Highlights Squishy Robotics
Michelle Quinn, Voice of America’s Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, interviewed company CEO Dr. Alice Agogino and published this video news piece that explains how technology that was first designed for space exploration is now assisting and protecting first responders.
Squishy Robots at Tulsa Fire Department
Gabriel Graveline, Tulsa Fire Department (TFD) firefighter, paramedic, and robotics team leader for the department’s unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) program shared these pictures of our HazMat sensor robots on location in Oklahoma.
Research to the Rescue
Squishy Robotics was highlighted in a National Science Foundation (NSF) video. This latest video, Research to the Rescue: 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About, illustrates how NSF funding has helped advance technologies that show promise for disaster mitigation.
Meet Our 2020-21 Interns
With the start of the 2020-2021 academic year, Squishy Robotics welcomed eight UC Berkeley Master of Engineering (MEng) students to our engineering team. Typically, MEng students apply to different UC Berkeley-affiliated companies or laboratories to work as interns to gain industry experience as part of their one-year master’s program.
Hutchings Delivers Presentation to the Military
Squishy Robotics Lead Mechatronics Engineer Douglas Hutchings was invited to give a presentation about Squishy Robotics’ commercial products and ongoing work adapting our sensor robots for military needs at the xTech 3 Summit.
NSF Produces Video of Squishy Robotics
Squishy Robotics was featured in a recent National Science Foundation (NSF) video highlighting our R&D work that was funded by an ongoing NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant awarded in 2019.