Chico Weber is CEO of Squarefruit Labs. He graduated with a B.S. in Manufacturing Engineering from Southern Illinois University.

Squarefruit Labs is aiming to accelerate the next manufacturing race with Persona. Persona is a unique robot equipped with a 7 degree-of-freedom arm and several multilevel camera systems for real world interactions that involve advanced manufacturing techniques including 3d printing, scanning, milling, and material handling. What used to take full factories and multiple levels of prototyping we will be able to do with Persona on a single streamlined platform. We are testing Persona’s capability in the fields of advanced manufacturing, agriculture, renewable energy, and biomedical engineering. Biomedical applications have been expanded to include full sized prosthetics as well as preliminary testing with tissue printing.

The American Heart Association (AHA) has asked Squarefruit Labs to design a new technology and heart health focused dress for the “Say Yes to the Red Dress” event that they are hosting with Dupont in June this year. The dress has been designed by Tiffany Rae and will use an EKG sensor to output the model’s heart rate in the form of pulsing lights around the dress. The dress will be auctioned off during the event and the proceeds will go to the AHA.