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Boltr Service Robot Rolls Out in Aloft Hotels

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Aloft Hotels, owned by Starwoord Hotels and Resorts  https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:HOT, has rolled out Boltr or SaviOne by Savioke.   Savioke is a venture start up with $2 million in capital, one of the funders  is Google.  The SaviOne complements Aloft’s model which they brand as contemporary and innovative hotel chain.

I can see a lot of options for robots like this in hospitals, offices and in warehouses.  Not sure about the R2D2 sounds and the anthropomorphic dots for eyes.  I wonder if their VOC list as a high priority those features or if they are just traits of over processing.

 

https://youtu.be/F70He3mVrUQ

http://www.savioke.com/

A  5 minute video about Boltr by Savioke with CEO Steve Cousins.  Aloft hotels is rolling this out.   Aloft is

 

http://www.starwoodhotels.com/alofthotels/index.html?&language=en_US&localeCode=en_US

About me: Sean McClure is a former Senior Advisor at the White House.  Sean is currently the Suspension and Debarment Advisor to the Department of the Treasury and with over 15 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State. He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.  

Disruptive Change

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  posted an interesting blog post about disruptive change, R&D and innovation within the manufacturing sector on the Huffington Post. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zvonimir-mrsic/innovating-transformation_b_7977960.html

About me: Sean McClure is a former Senior Advisor at the White House.  Sean is currently the Suspension and Debarment Advisor to the Department of the Treasury and with over 15 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State. He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.  

$100,000 Competition for Clean Tech

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An interesting article on 8/15/15 by Robert Sanders in the Berkeley News  on a $100,000 investment “infusion” in clean tech for student teams.

“Berkeley Cleantech University Prize (CUP), which will fund the teams during the fall semester as they take advantage of the campus’s incubators and accelerators, which are now primarily helping UC Berkeley students launch start-ups.”

http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/08/17/100000-competition-to-stimulate-innovative-clean-technology/

This is part of a DOE $2.5M grant to fund clean tech.

About me: Sean McClure is currently a Federal Employee with over 15 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State.  He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

 

NDEMC Final Report

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Below is the link to the final report of the NDEMC public-private partnership that I spearheaded while at the White House.

Interesting read

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Building on over a decade of leadership in promoting the use of HPC for competitive advantage, the Council spearheaded the formation of NDEMC. The consortium began as a partnership of industry, federal agencies, state governments and solution partners (e.g. university computing centers). NDEMC launched in 2011 and successfully helped small to medium-sized American manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) take advantage of MS&A technologies that were beyond their resources or expertise. NDEMC projects with twenty SMEs increased sales collectively by more than $20 million per year with half of those sales in exports. The SMEs created 160 new jobs in 2012 and developed three new products.

http://ndemc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/NDEMC_Final_Report_04-2015.pdf

http://ndemc.org/

About me: Sean McClure is currently a Federal Employee with over 15 years of experience working at the White House, Department of the Treasury, USAID, and Department of State.  He has traveled extensively to 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

 

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