When Pablo Molina (BASc ’11), chairman, CTO, VP of Product and co-founder of Avidbots, went searching for additional talent to improve his company's flagship autonomous floor-scrubbing robot, he turned to his former University of Waterloo professor and mentor, William Melek, for help.
“Partnering with Waterloo gives a company access to a world-class facility where they will be able to work closely with researchers and students who are very motivated to translate this into commercial technology they can put into their products,” says Melek, director of Waterloo RoboHub.When Molina and his co-founder Faizan Sheikh (BASc ’11) created Avidbots in 2014 they chose to move back to the Waterloo region to scale their business and be close to the University. He says that having access to the startup ecosystem, and research and engineering talent available in the region has been critical to their success. Read more on Waterloo News