One of Oceanit's newest areas is the development of niche technologies for robotics, especially micro-robots. We will bring with us a micro robot that is being designed to walk on walls. We also have a video clip of a test where the robot move from the floor to climbing a wall. Velcro was used for the test but a new nano material which act like the feet of a gecko will be tested. We are also developing new nano-based power cells (both PV and Fuel Cells) that will allow a robot to extend its operating life from hours to days.

Ismael Medrano: BS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University. MS (in progress), Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Mr. Medrano was a design engineer for Novariant Corporation, which focuses on precision GPS control. His main focus was on integration of GPS controls into farm equipment for sub-inch accuracy agriculture. In graduate school he was a member of the Autonomous Systems Lab whose main project is SAUVIM: Semi-autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Intervention Missions. While working for the ASL Lab and MASE (Marine Autonomous Systems Engineering), a start up company spun out of the lab, his work focused on underwater vehicle design. Some of these projects include: pressure vessel design, underwater sensor housings, test support and a pneumatic lift bag for retrieval of mission targets. He joined Oceanit in 2007 and was been working on several projects. For GRIP (Gecko Robotic Inspired Platform) he has built a robotic platform to validate the design of carbon nano-tube gecko pads. For the HANDS (High Accuracy Network Determination System) project he has helped design telescopes as well as supporting hardware to integrate COTS optical sensors. Finally, he designed the prototype dispenser for the WISPER Phase I project.