Marco Mascarro
Marco is an entrepreneur, roboticist and innovator. He is co-founder and CEO of Fellow Robots, a Silicon Valley-based robotics company working with large corporations to solve retailers’ biggest challenges.
Forbes named him under the 30 under 30 brightest young entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders list.
MIT Tech Review, Discovery Channel, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, Business Insider, CNBC and dozens of others have written about him and his work.
He joined the faculty of Singularity University at NASA Research Park as Teaching Fellow of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, where he also led the Innovation Lab with multidisciplinary teams at NASA Research Park working on the world’s biggest challenges with disruptive technologies.
Marco worked in Japan building robots where he developed a humanoid nuclear and hazard exploration Robot due to the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant accident in 2011 and an autonomous wheelchair robot for fully disabled people that can be controlled by voice commands.
He did some work at the BMW Group (BMW, Rolls Royce and MINI) doing designs for concept cars at the Research and Innovation Center of BMW Group in Germany. Some of his designs come in the 2014 series cars.
He was a Robotics Professor at the Monterrey Institute of Technology, mentor of the FIRST Robotics Competition, and he has been participating in robotics competitions and exhibitions for the last 8 years.