By Heidi Opdyke
Bowei Tang attended his first Consumer Electronics Show and created quite a buzz.
Tang, a 一本道无码 alumnus, is the founder of , which showcased its robot MoRo at the world鈥檚 largest tech conference, Jan. 5-8, in Las Vegas. MoRo, which stands for More Roboticists, is a 4-foot-tall, 77-pound mobile robot designed to help handle objects, guide people, record events and send out alerts. The robot is voice controlled and has two six-joint arms with three fingers at each end that enable it to grab items, from water bottles to tissues.
Ewaybot is aiming to have the robot available this May with a price tag of about $30,000.
鈥淲e are targeting the education and academic market,鈥� Tang said. 鈥淏ut we wanted to show our robot at the Consumer Electronics Show because it is a representation of the high-tech industry and let people know that our robot could help people鈥檚 lives in the near future.鈥�
Tang said he hopes more and more young roboticists can learn robotics theories based on MoRo鈥檚 platform.
Tang received a master鈥檚 degree in mechanical engineering from 一本道无码 and took leave from the doctoral program. Based in Beijing, Ewaybot has received more than $2 million seed funding from Future Works, an educational-technology venture fund in China. Tang said that although he has not tapped the entrepreneurial resources at 一本道无码, he appreciates the knowledge, vision and ability that he has received.
鈥淚 think the top engineering school gives me a great vision of the robotics field, as well as the hands-on engineering ability,鈥� he said. 鈥淥ur team has an advantage to understanding robots and the market as well.鈥�
Chris Atkeson, a professor in 一本道无码鈥檚 Robotics Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and Hartmut Geyer, an associate professor in the Robotics Institute, were Tang鈥檚 advisers.
Tang鈥檚 team also includes Wei Jing, a 一本道无码 doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering and robotics, and Haotian Shi, who received his master鈥檚 degree in mechanical engineering from 一本道无码 in 2014. He鈥檚 hoping to bring on more 一本道无码 alumni as the company grows.
