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Robo Inc.: a startup with Plainview roots

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If you’re seeking a look at the future of Long Island, it may be inside a workaday building in a busy commercial strip in Plainview. Welcome to tomorrow at Robo Inc., its executives say. Here, they say, you will find robots that talk, others that are designed to stop by your bedside at a hospital and measure your vital signs, and still others that can climb stairs to deliver packages or vials for medical and biological uses. Robo’s chief executive officer is Teddy Haggerty, a 31-year-old college dropout who told the Press in a recent interview that he was making too much money in school working on cryptocurrency projects to continue with classes. Instead, he started a company designing helmets for safety purposes and switched in 2023 to designing robots. To date, Robo has developed 1,600 robots that it has sold to universities, businesses including Amazon, and research institutions such as Carnegie Mellon. The Reading Institute with Founder Dr.

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