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Monthly Programs - May 11, 2010

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Campus Center - Odeum 

 

Medical Robotics Can Improve Health Care

Opportunities abound to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs through medical robotics and automation, according to Martin Sklar, '73, President and CEO of Automated Medical instruments, Inc. Drawing on his experience in researching medical markets and developing numerous automation systems, he will discuss market opportunities and new technologies for medical robotics at the WPI Venture Forum's May 11 meeting.

The first president of Medical Development Group (MDG) and one of its co-founders in 2001, Sklar currently serves on the MDG Board and chairs its new Entrepreneur SIG. In 2002, together with MDG colleagues, he co-founded AlvaMed, LLC, a quality and regulatory consulting company and in 2006 co-founded Medical Development Partners, Inc, a business strategy and development consulting company.

Sklar has more than 25 years of successful experience in business development, project management, invention, design/development engineering, analysis, quality, regulatory, manufacturing engineering including roll-out of various medical products. Earlier commercial experience includes work with Corning Glass Works, Dade Behring, Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Millipore Corporation, Orion Research, and Visualization Technology, Inc. (now part of GE Medical). His more recent work has included development of micro technologies for drug delivery and pain management devices.

Case Presentation:  Neuron Robotics

Neuron Robotics was founded in 2008 by Bob Breznak '09 and Kevin Harrington '08. While students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, they had independently encountered critical problems in their senior projects -- a lack of a unified system for robotics development. With fellow student Alex Camilo'09, they developed an open source, programmable and inter-operable platform to integrate processing, actuators and sensors, thereby lowering the costs of entry into robotics development to within the ability range of the average person.

The Neuron Robotics Prototyping System is designed to let developers focus on what they want to do without needing to work from the ground up. Its goal is to give anyone with an idea the abilities to bring it to reality in as little time as possible.

Presenter Breznak will be asking the panel of experts how to find the right people to support their company's growth, how to reach their potential customers, and when to outsource.

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