Katherine Olives
As we've mentioned before, this year's cohort is especially engaged in the larger entrepreneurial community. We'd like to take a minute to highlight two of our teams, Hybridia and Applied Motions, who will pitch their ideas at the Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC) and RoboUniverse respectively.
Hybridia, a semi-finalist in the Zahn Technology Track, will present their venture at the Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC), an annual event associated with the Biomedical Engineering Society. The first day of the 3-day conference is dedicated to students and includes several career exploration panels, and a chance to network with industry leaders, as well as an undergraduate design competition. Hybridia was chosen to present in this competition after submitting an abstract that explained its problem, solution, market and commercialization plans. On April 5th, the Hybridia team will present a poster to a panel of judges as well as other conference attendees at Binghamton University, the host institution for the 42nd Annual NEBEC.
Hybridia focuses on laparoscopy, a type of minimally invasive surgical technique. After interviewing several surgeons and patients, the team realized that there is a huge need for a laparoscopic surgical tool that can articulate in different degrees of freedom. Hybridia is focused on creating a tool that combines the articulation of costly robotic systems. The team will apply that technology to current laparoscopic surgical tools. Their hopes for the NEBEC? “Winning would be amazing of course,” said the team, “but we think the experience in general is just a great opportunity. We hope that we can make our department and the Zahn Center proud by representing the quality of work coming out of CCNY.”
Applied Motions, a semi-finalist in the Kaylie Connected Hardware Track, will present their venture at RoboUniverse on April 11th. RoboUniverse is a robot technology end user conference and exposition, featuring an array of business professionals, industry practitioners and robotics solutions providers. RoboUniverse events are all about Modern Robotics €“ mobile service robots, collaborative robots, drones and cognitive intelligence (AI), and the intersection between IoT & Robotics. The conference features leaders and experts on the robotics revolution who provide insights into market and technology trends that are creating business opportunities and changing the way we work, learn, and live. Our goal is to provide education and actionable intelligence for our attendees.
Applied Motions will create wearables that combine biofeedback and gamification to increase strength and agility while rehabilitating and preventing injury. The data collected will be useful for a variety of industries.
Show your support for both Hybridia and Applied Motions by wishing them luck and visiting them at Demo Day in May.