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.
Successful Testing and Airdrops with Aero Systems West
Squishy Robotics is building and testing some BIG robots—some are 47-inches in diameter and can carry payloads more than 7 times the size of our 22-inch sensor robots that are being used by first responders for persistent HazMat monitoring during emergencies.
Squishy Robotics Introduces our Technology to Military Allies
Military officers from 19 different countries toured Berkeley SkyDeck in late February as part of a West Coast visit to technology companies and government agencies. The 25 military officers (all with ranks of captain or colonel) are currently attending the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, D.C.
Japanese Executives Visit with CEO
CEO Alice Agogino (center) gave a presentation and demonstration to a group of Japanese businesspeople during their visit to Squishy Robotics.