Gui Cavalcanti is a robotics engineer who co-founded

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, and MegaBots Inc.

Education

Cavalcanti studied engineering at

Olin College Olin College of Engineering, officially Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, is a private college focused on engineering and located in Needham, Massachusetts. Its endowment had been funded primarily by the defunct F. W. Olin Foundation. T ...

Career

Cavalcanti initially worked at

Boston Dynamics Boston Dynamics, Inc., is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a Research spin-off, spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Boston Dynamics has been owne ...

, before creating communal workshop

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, in 2010 which

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reported as being the world's largest

hackerspace A hackerspace (also referred to as a hacklab, hackspace, or makerspace) is a community-operated, often "not for profit" (501(c)(3) in the United States), workspace where people with common interests, such as computers, machining, technology, sci ...

. Cavalcanti co-founded California based MegaBots Inc., a company that built a giant fighting robot that appeared in the

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and on

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in 2018. In 2015 Cavalcanti uploaded a video to

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inviting the team that owned and operated Japanese fighting robot

Kuratas Kuratas is a rideable and user-operated mecha built by the Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry. Billed as "the world's first giant boarding robot", the Kuratas was unveiled when the website was opened in 2012. It was demonstrated at Wonde ...

to a

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. Cavalcanti stars in the movie ''The Giant Robot Duel: MegaBots vs. Suidobashi.'' In 2020, in response to the

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, Cavalcanti co-founded Open Source Medical Supplies, an organization that collates and shared open source designs for medical supplies.

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