{"632793":{"#nid":"632793","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Georgia Center for Medical Robotics (GCMR) Seminar Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;A Seismic Shift in Wearable Robotics\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERich Mahoney, Ph.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCEO\/Founder\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ESeismic\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSeismic was founded in 2015 to commercialize technology developed at SRI International under the DARPA Warrior Web Program. \u0026nbsp;Rich will talk about Seismic\u0026#39;s journey to first product, some of his own journey, and the ultimate vision for powered clothing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBIO\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRich Mahoney\u0026#39;s career looks like this: BS\/MS ME Drexel U (I\u0026#39;m a Philly boy); PhD Cambridge, attended on a Fulbright; early Rehab Robotics KOL, but wanted to make products instead of research; did lots of SBIRs and eventually brought to market (2006) a robot for stroke therapy for the arms; moved to CA (2008) to be Director of Robotics at SRI; became founding president of Silicon Valley Robotics (a good way to meet fellow roboticists); led an amazing team doing lots of good work for DARPA and big companies, and spun out a few things (Abundant, Verb, Redwood, ...); founded Seismic to get back to doing real products (2015).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022A Seismic Shift in Wearable Robotics\u0022 - Richard Mahoney, Ph.D. - CEO\/Founder, Seismic"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2020-02-21 13:00:35","changed_gmt":"2020-02-21 13:00:44","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-03-10T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2020-03-10T15:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-03-10T15:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-03-10 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-03-10 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-03-10 19:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/medicalrobotics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Center for Medical Robotics (GCMR)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"},{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"175342","name":"go-medicalrobotics"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mailto:\u200bdrew.elliott@gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDrew Elliott\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E-\u0026nbsp;Research Technician II\u0026nbsp;|\u0026nbsp;Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}