{{Short description|Robotics, community and PPE entrepreneur}} thumb|Cavalcanti (right) at TechCrunch San Francisco 2016Gui? Cavalcanti is a robotics engineer who co-founded Open Source Medical Supplies?,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Petri|first=Alexandra E.|date=2020-03-31|title=D.I.Y. Coronavirus Solutions Are Gaining Steam|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/science/coronavirus-masks-equipment-crowdsource.html|access-date=2021-12-14|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Bambury|first=Brent|date=20 March 2020|title=Robotics engineer crowd-sources designs for COVID-19 medical supplies to help out-of-stock hospitals|work=CBC|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/futures-on-hold-3d-printed-medical-gear-rem-s-mike-mills-choir-choir-choir-the-story-of-purell-and-more-1.5502663/robotics-engineer-crowd-sources-designs-for-covid-19-medical-supplies-to-help-out-of-stock-hospitals-1.5502671}}</ref> Artisan's Asylum?,<ref name=":1" /> and MegaBots Inc.?<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=No Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Here: Behold A U.S. Vs. Japan Giant Robot Duel|language=en|work=NPR.org|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/10/17/558092970/no-rock-em-sock-em-here-behold-a-u-s-vs-japan-giant-robot-duel|access-date=2021-12-14}}</ref>
== Education == Cavalcanti studied engineering at Olin College?<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Kirsner|first=Scott|date=25 November 2016|title=Does concept of huge battling robots as sport stand a fighting chance?|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/11/25/does-concept-huge-battling-robots-sport-stand-fighting-chance-megabots-counting/m9v7AeNARwojctjOWUwf3I/story.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-14|website=Boston Globe|language=en-US}}</ref> and worked as a professor there after graduation.<ref>Winkelman, Sandy., Johnson, Brian David. 21st Century Robot: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories. United States: Make Community, LLC, 2014.</ref>
== Career == Cavalcanti initially worked at Boston Dynamics?, before creating communal workshop Artisan's Asylum? in Somerville, Massachusetts?,<ref name=":1"/><ref>Dougherty, Dale. Free to Make: How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds. United States: North Atlantic Books, 2016. pp67</ref> in 2010<ref>Leigh, Nancey G.., Blakely, Dr. Edward J.. Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice. United States: SAGE Publications, 2016.</ref> which Wired magazine? reported as being the world's largest hackerspace?.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|last=Flaherty|first=Joe|title=Building Stompy the Giant Robot Inside the World's Biggest Hackerspace|language=en-US|work=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/2012/08/artisans-asylum-hackerspace-builds-stompy-the-giant-robot/|access-date=2021-12-14|issn=1059-1028}}</ref> In the same article, Wired described Cavalcanti as "insane".<ref name=":2" />
Cavalcanti co-founded California based<ref name=":1"/> MegaBots Inc.,<ref>Nagelhout, Ryan. Fighting Robots. United States: PowerKids Press, 2016. pp26</ref> a company that built a giant fighting robot that appeared in the Guinness book of records?<ref>{{Cite web|title=Largest robots to fight|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/501270-largest-robots-to-fight|access-date=2021-12-14|website=Guinness World Records|language=en-gb}}</ref> and on Jay Leno's Garage? in 2018.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-04-26|title=Jay Leno pilots a $2.5 million giant fighting robot|url=https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/04/26/jay-leno-pilots-a-2-point-5-million-giant-fighting-robot.html|access-date=2021-12-29|website=CNBC|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Gui Cavalcanti|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5660922/bio|access-date=2021-12-29|website=IMDb}}</ref> In 2015 Cavalcanti uploaded a video to YouTube? inviting the team that owned and operated Japanese fighting robot Kuratas? to a duel?.<ref>Sone, Yuji. Japanese Robot Culture: Performance, Imagination, and Modernity. United States: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. pp125</ref>
Cavalcanti stars in the movie The Giant Robot Duel: MegaBots vs. Suidobashi.<ref name=":3" />
In 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic?, Cavalcanti co-founded Open Source Medical Supplies, an organization that collates and shared open source designs for medical supplies.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hannah|first=Douglas|date=2021-02-16|title=One Way to Build More Resilient Medical Supply Chains in the U.S.|work=Harvard Business Review|url=https://hbr.org/2021/02/one-way-to-build-more-resilient-medical-supply-chains-in-the-u-s|access-date=2021-12-14|issn=0017-8012}}</ref>
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