Nationality Australian Name Saul Griffith | Role Inventor Fields Materials Science | |
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Alma mater University of New South Wales (B.MET.E)
University of Sydney (M.E.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.) Known for Low-cost eyeglasses,
Energy conservation,
Howtoons Books Howtoons: the Possibilities are Endless Education University of Sydney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of New South Wales Awards MacArthur Fellowship, Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Organizations founded Makani Power, Instructables | ||
Saul griffith hardware solutions to everyday problems
Saul Griffith (born 1974) is an Australian American inventor. He is the founder or co-founder of seven companies, including Otherlab (where he is currently CEO), Makani Power, and Instructables.
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- Saul griffith hardware solutions to everyday problems
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- Education
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Saul griffith talks at the golden gate club
Education
In 2000, Griffith graduated from the University of Sydney with a Master of Engineering degree. He won a scholarship to MIT Media Lab to study towards a PhD that he completed in 2004. The subject of his PhD thesis was "self-replicating machines". They were one of the first instances of artificial replication being demonstrated using real physics.
Projects
Saul is the co-founder and CEO of OtherLab, a research and development company working on computational manufacturing and design tools and applying those tools to projects such as inflatable pneumatic robots and prostheses, novel approaches to heliostat design, and applications of computational origami to the design of pressure vessels (e.g. for compressed natural gas) in arbitrary shapes.
Previously, he was a co-founder of Squid Labs, and its spinout companies and projects Makani Power, Instructables, Wattzon, HowToons, OptiOpia, Potenco and Monkeylectric.
Griffith now lives in San Francisco.
