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BluHaptics, a spinoff from the BioRobotics Lab, just received $1.3 million in Series A funding from a group of Seattle investors to help it develop a commercial product for delivery later this year. \u00a0Check out the coverage from these area journals:<\/p>\n
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Congrats to BRL professor Blake Hannaford on being named an Amazon Catalyst Fellow. \u00a0Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n ====================================================================<\/p>\n BRL\u00a0alumnus Fredrik Ryden was featured by UW CoMotion for his work as a Commercialization fellow. \u00a0Read more\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fredrik and fellow BRL alumnus Charlie Matlack (founder of startup PotaVida)<\/a>\u00a0were panel members to prospective EE graduate students as they visited campus last week, discussing how the university supports entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BluHaptics, a spinoff from the BioRobotics Lab, just received $1.3 million in Series A funding from a group of Seattle investors to help it develop a commercial product for delivery later this year. \u00a0Check out the coverage from these area journals: GeekWire:\u00a0http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/bluhaptics-undersea-software-space\/ Robotics Business Review:\u00a0https:\/\/www.roboticsbusinessreview.com\/energy-mining\/bluhaptics-raises-1-36m-subsea-robotics-software\/ PE Hub:\u00a0https:\/\/www.pehub.com\/2017\/03\/software-startup-bluhaptics-nets-1-36-mln-series\/ Puget Sound Business Journal:\u00a0http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/news\/2017\/03\/01\/uw-bluehaptics-snags-1-4m-robotics-software.html Xconomy:\u00a0http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/seattle\/2017\/03\/01\/backed-by-seattle-angels-bluhaptics-readies-robot-control-software\/# UW EE http:\/\/www.ee.washington.edu\/spotlight\/startup-bluhaptics-raises-1-3m-to-bring-its-underwater-software-to-space\/ … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-bluhaptics","category-haptics-and-fixtures","category-spinoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/ada.ece.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2017\/03\/Capture4.jpg\")
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