Marco Mascorro
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Robotics & AI Engineer
About
I am an Entrepreneur, AI & Robotics engineer and currently live in San Francisco.
I started Fellow AI (FKA Fellow Robots) at a small lab at NASA Research Park with co founders NASA Astronaut Dan Barry, Tasha McCauley, and others.
Fellow AI is a VC-backed, Silicon Valley-based AI/robotics company building supply chain automation with robotics & AI.
I help and sit on advisory boards for some startups and occasionally invest in some.
- I've created a few robots: OSHbot, NAVii, and LoweBot (Lowe's Robot), the first fully autonomous customer service and inventory management robots. - Deployed with multiple Fortune 500 Co's, leading to multi-million dollar contracts with some of the largest companies in the world (Lowe's, Toyota, Sam's (Walmart), Johnson & Johnson, Yahoo!, BevMo, & others.
- Raised over $8,400,000 from multiple Silicon Valley investors, Tencent and one of the world largest OEMs.
- Named by Forbes as a the 30 under 30 and by MIT as Innovator under 35 (MIT TR35).
- I created an open source COVID-19 ventilator. The project went viral and has been helping over 200 teams around the world. More info below. Here's the story covered by the BBC.
- Some of that work has been featured in WSJ, New York Times, Bloomberg, IEEE, Discovery Channel, MIT Technology Review, Forbes, Nikkei, and others (see below).
- I led the Innovation Lab and was a former Robotics & AI faculty of Singularity University at NASA Research Park.
- Joined BMW Research & Innovation Center in Munich to engineer concept cars. Some of my designs come in the 2014 production car series.
- I've developed multiple robots, and software products used by some of the largest Fortune 500 Companies leading to multi-million dollar contracts.
- I built an autonomous Robot for nuclear exploration due to the Fukushima Accident, and an autonomous wheelchair robot for disabled people at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan.
- I started programming and building robots at age 11 in Assembler. In undergrad, I loved STEM and led my to have the best grades in Physics, Electronics, Math and programming. I graduated as second best GPA with Cum Laude honors.
- I've authored of multiple patents on Robotics, Computer Vision, AI, sensors, and automation. More than 8 of patents can be found here.
Media
Lowe's OSHbot Robot partnership:
Wall Street Journal
Lowe's Autonomous Robots deployments story
Lowe's Autonomous Robots deployments story
Forbes 30 under 30
AI and Robotics
AI and Robotics
MIT Technology Review
Innovators Under 35
Innovators Under 35
BBC
Raspberry Pi-Powered ventilator coverage story
Raspberry Pi-Powered ventilator coverage story
NBC Bay Area Interview
Robot automation, and the positive impact of robotics.
Robot automation, and the positive impact of robotics.
CNBC
Lowe's Introduces LoweBot, a new autonomous in-store robot
Lowe's Introduces LoweBot, a new autonomous in-store robot
Autoevolution
"Man Uses Car Parts to Build a Pandemic Ventilator"
"Man Uses Car Parts to Build a Pandemic Ventilator"
Inc.
Lowe's Introduces New Retail Robot to Help Customers
Lowe's Introduces New Retail Robot to Help Customers
ZDNet
Lowe's Introduces autonomous service robots to retail stores
Lowe's Introduces autonomous service robots to retail stores
Other outlets that have covered some stories on Marco:
Project Portfolio
Here are some of the public robots and projects I've built:
AnyPod.ai
Semantic Search Engine for YouTube/Podcasts
Semantic Search Engine for YouTube/Podcasts
AnyPod.ai
Search for a phrase, idea, or question. We'll point you to the exact timestamp and video(s) where this is mentioned. Lightning fast.
Search for a phrase, idea, or question. We'll point you to the exact timestamp and video(s) where this is mentioned. Lightning fast.
YouTranscription
Automated Whisper (OpenAI) transcriptions
Automated Whisper (OpenAI) transcriptions
YouTranscription.com
Transcribe any YouTube video into a searchable PDF using Whisper (AI Model) from OpenAI.
Transcribe any YouTube video into a searchable PDF using Whisper (AI Model) from OpenAI.
Autonomous Customer Service Robot
OSHBot
OSHBot navigates you through stores helping you find your products. Deployed in Orchard Supply Hardware stores.
OSHBot navigates you through stores helping you find your products. Deployed in Orchard Supply Hardware stores.
Autonomous Customer Service and inventory scanning Robot
NAVii
NAVii guides you and helps you find products. It also scans inventory in the night. Deployed in Lowe's, BevMo, SAM's, PARCO Japan, Toyota, and other locations.
NAVii guides you and helps you find products. It also scans inventory in the night. Deployed in Lowe's, BevMo, SAM's, PARCO Japan, Toyota, and other locations.
Co-bot (Coca Cola) Social autonomous robot
Co-Bot
The autonomous social robot was developed in collaboration with Coca Cola for the creation of a social robot.
The autonomous social robot was developed in collaboration with Coca Cola for the creation of a social robot.
AI Camera software for weapon detection
AI model to detect weapons in real-time from security cameras and send SMS notifications to warn of this threat to the right people.
Tested in the footage of the Uvalde, TX school shooting.
Neural Net Vision system for Robot Arms
SIMPL
The easy to use interface allows any person with no programming experience to use and program industrial robots.
The easy to use interface allows any person with no programming experience to use and program industrial robots.
COVID-19 Contact tracing
COVID-19 Contact tracing
The contact tracer allows people to socially distance (by an haptic feedback) and keep track of every contact within 10 feet precisely, utilizing Ultra-wideband (UWB).
The contact tracer allows people to socially distance (by an haptic feedback) and keep track of every contact within 10 feet precisely, utilizing Ultra-wideband (UWB).
COVID-19 Ventilator
The Open Source COVID-19 ventilator has been helping over 200 teams around the world. Marco and the Resilient Breath team have been working and manufacturing multiple ventilators to help with the relief of COVID-19.
Telepresence robot
Originally when we started Fellow Robots, we developed multiple versions of telepresence robots.
Autonomous wheelchair
KuruRobo
Developed an autonomous wheelchair robot for disabled people while I was doing Computer Vision research at the Kanazawa Institute of Japan.
Developed an autonomous wheelchair robot for disabled people while I was doing Computer Vision research at the Kanazawa Institute of Japan.
Nuclear Exploration Robot
Nuclear Exploration Robot
Autonomous humanoid exploration robot in Japan due to the Fukushima accident. IREX 2011
Autonomous humanoid exploration robot in Japan due to the Fukushima accident. IREX 2011
Exploration Rover
Exploration Rover
Developed an exploration rover for search and rescue in nataral distasters. Project was developed at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology
Developed an exploration rover for search and rescue in nataral distasters. Project was developed at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology
Kanzawa Institute of Technology - AI and Robotics Lab
Electrathon Competition
Electrathon Competition
High efficiency, high speed, electric vehicle.
First place in best design
High efficiency, high speed, electric vehicle.
First place in best design
Contact
DM me on Twitter(@Mascobot) or Email:
Contact me if you are working or interested in:
- Software automation (RPA), AI, robotics, Computer Vision.
- Programming.
- Advanced manufacturing (the robots that make the robots).
- Computer Vision applications.
- Applied AI (solving today's problems).
- Coding & developer tools.
- Advanced sensors and electronics.
- Space Robotics.