Celebrating Nationwide Robotics Week with Mayor Wu

On Tuesday April 4, 2023, MassRobotics was thrilled to welcome Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, her staff and Boston Chief of Financial Alternative and Inclusion to tour our house, meet with startups and be a part of certainly one of our STEM applications as we kicked off the begin to Nationwide Robotics Week. 

Mayor Wu and Chief Idowu have been handled to a heat welcome at MassRobotics, a short overview of who we’re and what we do and a tour of the house. On their tour, Mayor Wu met Jaime, a 1st tester of resident Tatem, which strives to supply the tens of millions of individuals with deafblindness their first unbiased communication software by way of a robotic hand that may talk with American Signal Language (ASL). Jamie, her communication aide, and the Tatem robotic have been capable of converse with Mayor Wu concerning the trial they have been conducting, the gaps in current communication instruments and the place the expertise is as we speak. 

Subsequent, Mayor Wu’s tour met with Cleo Robotics, who’s constructing the world’s first indoor protected and  pleasant drone for functions together with legislation enforcement, surveying, safety, and warehousing. Mayor Wu acquired to see Cleo’s proprietary design work in actual time.

The Mayor’s tour ended within the MassRobotics devoted STEM lab, the place college students from Boston’s Eliot College within the North Finish have been studying to work together with and direct numerous robots in several phases throughout a 2 hour workshop.. Mayor Wu discovered concerning the many workshops we provide college students, together with a drone academy, bluetech underwater robotics academy, highschool women Jumpstart program and was capable of watch pupil groups program a robotic to navigate, pivot and switch, and retrieve objects. 

MassRobotics and New England FIRST partnered to supply BPS college students a hands-on Robotics expertise throughout Nationwide Robotics Week. We hosted workshops incorporating the FIRST robots in a mildly aggressive atmosphere, in addition to launched center and highschool college students to trade grade robotics. Colleges we hosted included:

• New Mission Excessive College
• Roxbury Prep
• John D. O’Bryant
• Madison Park Technical Vocational College
• Holmes Innovation College
• The English Excessive College
• David A Ellis
• Eliot Innovation College
• Bates Elementary College
• As well as we hosted the Josiah Quincy Higher College.

MassRobotics was thrilled to host Mayor Wu and stay up for working together with her workplace!