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Bloomfield Robotics

A robotic solution for harvest optimization and crop health monitoring.

Team Members:
Tim Mueller-Sim | Engineer, Robotics Institute
George Kantor | Senior Systems Scientist, Robotics Institute
Eric Felix | MBA Candidate, Tepper School of Business
Reed McManigle | I-Corps Mentor

CubeRover (formerly Boost)

Many companies plan to mine the moon for precious materials within the next decade, but currently there are no low-cost, reliable and reusable options to send the materials back to Earth. We plan to build a robotic launch system (or mass driver) that can accurately propel these containers of resources mined on the moon back to Earth without the large recurring costs, resources, or risks associated with rockets.

EKTO VR (formerly Boundless VR)

Immerse yourself in vast worlds from the comfort of your living room with Active Control Skates. Experience virtual reality without physical boundaries.

Bradley Factor | Graduate Student, Robotics Institute/School of Computer Science
Leland Remson | MBA Candidate, Tepper School of Business
Kit Needham | I-Corps Mentor

ESTAT Actuation

Ultra-lightweight and low-power clutches and energy-recycling actuators based on electrostatic clutching technology could outperform traditional clutches and motors in many robotic applications.

Team Members:
Stuart Diller | Ph.D. candidate, Mechanical Engineering
Carmel Majidi| Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Reed McManigle | I-Corps Mentor

EXG Wearable Technology

EXG Wearable Technology aims to develop promising solutions that empower human capabilities to give humans extra controllability and augmented sensing abilities to communicate with the world. It can solve various kinds of problems, from helping disabled people interact with the environment as assistive tools, to enabling humans with a natural way of interaction with the smart environment or any electronic devices.

Team Members:
Ker-Jiun Wang | Alumnus, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yu-Han Liang, Ph.D. | Research Assistant, Photonics Laboratory
Zhi - Hong Mao | Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh Electrical and Computer Engineering
John Apostolides | Research Assistant, Department of Computational Biology
Emily Ackerman | University of Pittsburgh Department of Chemical Engineering
Prakash Thakur | UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Will Kaigler | I-Corps Mentor

Four Growers

Four Growers was founded to provide healthy, affordable, local produce by reducing the production costs of greenhouse growers through robotics technology.

Team Members:
Brandon Contino, CEO, BS Electrical Engineering
Daniel Chi, CTO, BS Mechanical Engineering
Kit Needham | I-Corps Mentor

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Hillside Hydro

We have developed a micro hydroelectric generator to recharge your electronic devices from moving water. Our design harnesses the kinetic energy of moving water to spin a turbine. The energy generated is stored in an internal battery while the device is in the water. Once removed the energy can be used to charge any of your devices via USB.

Team Members:
Hunter Hartshorne, CEO & co-founder | Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering
Jasper White, CTO & co-founder | Hobart and Williams Smith joint engineering program
George Harter | Product Design | CMU Mechanical Engineering
Adam Newhouse | Chief Electrical Engineer | University of Illinois Electrical Engineering
Kit Needham | I-Corps Mentor

iCareerpaths

We are developing “intelligent Career paths,” or iCareerpaths, a system for job seekers to visualize and explore potential future career paths and query for personalized job recommendations. iCareerpaths computes alternative career recommendations for each job seeker using data analytics and complex algorithms. Once users identify desirable career paths, our system connects them with job opportunities and online skill development courses to help them achieve their goals.

Team Members:
Maria Tomprou | Research Scientist, Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Laura Dabbish | Associate Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute & Heinz College
Divya Mohan | Research Assistant, Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Reed McManigle | I-Corps Mentor

Kensho

Kensho is a weight loss management and scheduling optimization platform that helps orthopedists increase patient retention, increase adherence, and lower complications for total knee replacement.

Team Members:
Lauren D'Souza | MBA Candidate, Tepper School of Business
Will Kaigler | I-Corps Mentor

Kent Parker

Kent Parker is a web app that services the media industry by being a search engine for journalists and media outlets looking for hard and soft news stories from companies and other newsmakers that would be beneficial to their viewers, listeners, readers, and other subscribers. Additionally, Kent Parker allows journalists to quickly educate themselves on a company and communicate with their key stakeholders through messaging and feedback allowing for increased transparency and accuracy.

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Optipik

Optipik helps real estate owners, hosts, and property managers maximize their visual content and property images. Optipik's activation score system, based on machine learning technology, classifies, ranks, optimizes, and connects photos to demand.

Percepsense

We built an app that detects potholes and assesses road conditions by crowdsourcing data from vehicles across the city. It creates insightful road condition maps to help civic officials identify and repair damaged roads.

Quick Connections

Quick Connections produces Smart Business Cards also known as QC-Cards. These QC-Cards utilize Near Field Communication technology (NFC) to immediately digitize someone's contact information into a Smart Phone or Tablet.

Team Members:
Gus Jenkins | Graduate student, Electrical and Computer Engineering & Technology Innovation Management
Adam Blazczak | Alumnus, M.S. Computer Software Engineering
Marc Rosenberg | MBA Candidate, Tepper School of Business
Kit Needham | I-Corps Mentor

Schtudy

STEMReady is a summer adaptive learning platform that consists of a 12-week online STEM “bootcamp” program, which begins by students completing a diagnostic baseline test to measure each student’s unique needs to allow for the most efficient and effective STEM learning methods for each student. Students are then paired with STEMReady Certified tutors that help students remediate core Calculus concepts and acclimate to the rigors of college courses.

Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

NSF I-Corps Site Teams Fall 2017