Akara Robotics

With Akara’s continuous growth, we wanted to revamp our #MeetTheTeam to highlight our amazing team that helps us stay innovative in the #startup landscape. In particular, we wanted to highlight our interns in our special #InternHighlights piece starting with Gaurav Sethia 🎉 While Gaurav has only been with us for almost three months as a computer vision intern, he has made great strides in his Summer internship with us. His current work involves developing "deep-learning" based computer vision models. He works closely with the team to utilise these models to understand the world around our robot and integrated systems to provide insightful data about the environments we work in 🏥 💡 It’s no surprise that Gaurav works well with us at Akara given his background from Carnegie Mellon University, the heart of robotics in the US, where he is working towards his Masters in Robotics Systems Development.  Alongside that, he has been a part of various other startups and has taken part in two IEEE robotic standardization efforts 🤖 While he’s not tinkering with robots and deep-learning models, Gaurav loves learning about various cultures through their cuisines and is a well-known sportsman having played Taekwondo at an Indian National Level 🥋 Thanks to Gaurav, understanding healthcare settings has only gotten easier for us and we have him to thank for his perseverance and his attitude towards constant learning ✨ #Meettheteam #HealthcareInnovation #TechStartup

A blast from the past! 🚀🤖 In 2019, we trialled our social robot called Stevie at Knollwood and the Army Distaff Foundation, which put us on the map along with our feature story in TIME. Five years later, in 2024, our CEO Conor McGinn and Chief Robotics Officer Niamh Donnelly had the wonderful opportunity to share our updates at Knollwood once again, highlighting what we have been up to over the last five years as well as the strides we have made with regards to healthtech innovation 🏥 💡 We were greeted by the residents and staff, including Associate Executive Director James Michels, who were kind enough to see us in-house and who are equally excited about what’s in store and on the horizon for Akara Robotics. As we look to expand further into the #US market in the coming months, we remain grateful to our early US partners like Knollwood who continue to support us and are keen to stay up-to-date with our progress in the space 🌟✨ #HealthTech #Innovation #HealthTechInnovation #USExpansion #TechUpdates

Join us today at Techstars Demo Day! 🚀🚀🚀 After three months on the Techstars Healthcare Accelerator, we’re excited to have Conor McGinn and Niamh Donnelly pitch our solution to transform the healthtech sector 💡 Huge thanks again to our mentors and partners along with a massive thanks to the Techstars team, Matt Kozlov, Ahmed A. Mirza, Allison Kitain, and Elena Friedberg, for their continued support across the last three months 👏 We're also grateful for the work that our team has put behind the scenes to ensure that today's demo goes extra smoothly today 🤖 🙏 We hope to see you with us today. Links to both the in-person and virtual events are listed in the comments below 🔽🔽🔽 #DemoDay #Techstars #HealthTech #StartupLife

Some lovely pictures of the team at Dublin Tech Summit 2024! 🤖 🍀 It was a fantastic two days at #DTS2024 and we were happy talking about our UV Disinfection Robot and smart infrastructure for hospitals and surgical centres 💡 Our team also had a blast seeing all the other stands and snatching some freebies 🙏 Super congrats to our Co-Founders, Cian Donovan and Niamh Donnelly for great turnouts at their talks and panels respectively, and a huge thank you to everyone who turned up 😁 We hope our time here showcased the innovative work we do here at Akara and we hope to show you more on the horizon very soon 🤞 Conor McGinn | Carl O'Connor | Michael O'Halloran | ilter savaş | Swatheesh Muralidharan | Fatma Dogan | Joe Linogao #DublinTechSummit2024 #StartupLife #Healthtech

Delighted to speak alongside Ciaran Gillen, Alan Coyne and Matthew Chavira at the Dublin Tech Summit panel ‘Rebels of AI’ Such interesting discussions and perspectives! #DubTechSummit

Great crowd today, interesting setup with everyone wearing headphones given the bustle of the rest of the conference! Discussed how we at Akara develop, test, and deploy our robots from the lab to the field 🤖 Thanks to #dublintechsummit

Had an awesome day at Dublin Tech Summit with Akara Robotics ✌️ it was super exciting to see all the exhibitors and get an understanding of the current state of Technology (especially AI...so much #AI 🤫🧏♂️) Thank you to everyone who stopped by to have a chat with me and the team about our robot 🤖 Shout out to all the booths for all the sweet merch! Remote Pinterest HubSpot Red Hat Dassault Systèmes Hofy Trinity College Dublin Bechtle Canva and the many others that were here for showcase! 🇮🇪 #DTS2024 #DublinTechSummit

With Dublin Tech Summit only two days away, don’t forget to keep an eye out for our Co-Founders Cian Donovan, and Niamh Donnelly who will be talking about all things robots 🤖 On Wednesday at 2:30pm, Cian will be discussing the logistics of deploying robots into the real world as well as the solutions Akara Robotics utilises on a day-to-day basis to jump over these hurdles. This talk provides a great foundation for any robotics-as-a-service companies looking for smart methods to expand their outreach 📈 Then, on Thursday at 9:30am, we have Niamh as a part of the Fireside panel “The Robots Are Here” alongside James Ives (XOCEAN) and Leo Clancy (Enterprise Ireland) which highlights advancements of robotics and machine learning in Ireland 🍀 Check out the agenda in the comments section below, and we hope to see you there! 💡 #DTS2024 #AIIreland #startuplife #irishstartups #healthtech #dublintechsummit #irishtechsummit #irishtech

Do you know what's better than one speaker at Dublin Tech Summit? Two Speakers! 💡 We are happy to announce that our Co-Founder and Forbes "30Under30" Listee, Cian Donovan, will also be speaking at Dublin Tech Summit next week 🙌🙌🙌 Cian will be talking about what it takes for a robotics startup to handle robot deployments across the globe, the challenges we at Akara Robotics face and the innovative solutions we use to overcome them 🤖 If you are attending Dublin Tech Summit, be sure to tune into his talk as well as Niamh Donnelly's panels throughout the day 💡🤝 You might even get a chance to see one of our robots moving around 👀 #robotics #AI #dubtechsummit #startup #healthcare #healthtech