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Since its founding in 1998, Vecna Technologies has developed a number of ways to help hospitals care for patients. The company has produced intake systems to respond to Covid-19 patient surges, prediction systems to manage health complications in maternity wards, and telepresence robots that have allowed sick people to stay connected with friends and loved ones. The differences among those products have also led to a number of transformations and spinoffs, including material handling company Vecna Robotics and the health care nonprofit VecnaCares. Vecna Technologies co-founders Deborah Noel Theobald '95 and Daniel Theobald '95, SM '98 say each of those pivots has been driven by a desire to build a robotics company that makes a positive impact on the world. "We knew we wanted to do robotics and do something good in the world," Deborah says of the team's mindset.

"She cooks, she cleans, and she still finds time to play ball with Elroy," George and Jane Jetsons' six-and-a-half-year-old son. Set in the year 2062 and described in the 1960s animated sitcom The Jetsons as an "aluminum-encased, battery-powered robotic maid" who is the "perfect answer for any modern family," Rosie the Robot takes care of chores around the house while also serving as friend and confidante of mother Jane. Sarcastic and funny, Rosie is a hardworking nanny and aunt figure to children Elroy and Judy. While many technologies The Jetsons predicted for 2062 have become reality, such as video calls and smart watches, the full realization of robots as the 1960s ideal friend and helper who makes life easier has yet to be fulfilled. For twenty-five years, roboticist Daniel Theobald has been on a mission to create robots that can solve the world's most pressing problems.

Ready to spin up a virtual GPU instance and smash through petabytes of data? Want to add'Machine Learning' to your LinkedIn profile? Before you embark on your journey, there are some high-level theory and statistical principles to weave through first.

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Ask a manufacturing company what their current top headaches are, and supply chain disruptions and staff shortages will probably top the list. Vecna Robotics might have the solution for both. Vecna Robotics develops autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) used in distribution, logistics, warehousing and manufacturing (the company first cut its teeth in hospitals and other health care facilities). Their secret sauce is the software; after all, explains founder and Chief Innovation Officer Daniel Theobald, robotics is 90-95% software. Vecna Robotics implants its software brains in existing equipment like forklifts and pallet trucks, making them autonomous – though the company does build some hardware of its own.

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Like many great inventions in history, modern robots first existed in science fiction literature before they materialized in the real world. The word "robot" was first coined by the Czech playwright Karl Capek in 1921, in his hit play, "Rossum's Universal Robots". It comes from the word "rabota", which means "slave labor" in the Old Slavonic language. First modern robots were developed in the second part of the 20th century, but people's fascination with replacing human effort and automating tasks dates back to the Ancient World. In 1979, the Robot Institute of America described a robot officially: "a reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through various programmed motions for the performance of a variety of task".

Robots are interacting with patients in medical facilities, handling material in warehouses, working in manufacturing, and helping ill children attend school--all with a hand from the Cloud. Indeed, by linking to the Cloud, robots are bringing homebound students into classrooms, hallways and cafeterias to socialize with their friends and continue learning--in school. "When you allow the student to actually be there, move around, go to classes and go to recess, you return a sense of control," said Daniel Theobald, chief innovation officer and co-founder of Vecna, a Massachusetts-based company that has created the VGo Robotic Telepresence. The VGo robot is essentially a virtual student who is present in the classroom and interacts in all the usual ways, even able to raise a hand (so to speak) to respond to questions in real time. But its creators hope you won't think of it as just a fancy Skype or FaceTime.