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travis deyle phd entrepreneur technologist scientist deyle com skip to content deyle com home research publications press travis deyle phd entrepreneur technologist scientist investor curiosity seeker i like to get bored get curious and get inspired over two decades that s led me from a robotics phd to a postdoc building cyborg dragonflies to founding a vc backed security robotics company to launching a climate focused etf there are infinite problems to solve and opportunities abound i just try to turn the interesting ones into reality linkedin google scholar mit tr35 innovator 20 publications 85m vc raised 24 patents career timeline two decades of building at the intersection of science technology and entrepreneurship current 2024 present climate global founder managing partner index provider data analytics for climate resilient real estate climate global democratizes insights from the catastrophe models used by global insurers and reinsurers to create new financial products for real estate created the climx index the first reit benchmark to directly integrate insurance grade catastrophe models into portfolio construction and launched the climate global etf ticker clim embedding property level climate and extreme weather risk analytics within a transparent rules based structure climate global index climate global etf ticker clim current 2025 present grep vc partner early stage venture capital for physical ai early stage investing in physical ai robotics and embodied intelligence applied to large real world markets portfolio companies include zipline autonomous delivery drones safetrust mobile access credentials pave robotics autonomous road repair queue autonomous robotic pharmacies zippedi in store retail robots and glidance self guided mobility aids for blind and low vision users among others grep vc current 2025 present bes tech strategic advisor hvac energy efficiency control retrofits retrofit control systems that cut hvac energy consumption by 30 50 without replacing the underlying equipment work spans 5 40 ton rooftop units 20 100 ton data center cooling units and 2 000 ton industrial chillers with an emphasis on extending the product line into remote cloud management and iot connectivity bes tech current 2014 present personal investing angel private investments in hard tech angel and private market investing since 2014 concentrated in hard tech robotics and space major private investments include spacex anduril safetrust verdant robotics bonsai robotics chef robotics and elio labs among others 2016 2024 cobalt robotics co founder ceo acquired autonomous security robots and ai alarm filtering acquired by dean drako eagle eye networks in 2024 co founded with erik schluntz built and deployed autonomous security robots in 10 countries on 5 continents with major customers such as amazon fedex salesforce and more raised 85m in vc from sequoia coatue bloomberg beta and others plus 40m in venture debt and hardware as a service financing from svb achieved 60 market share in autonomous indoor security 2015 mit technology review tr35 award 35 innovators under 35 named one of mit technology review s 35 innovators under 35 as an inventor previous winners include larry page sergey brin mark zuckerberg and jonathan ive 2014 2015 google x life sciences now verily microsystems healthcare part of the microsystems group developing smart contact lenses glucose sensing autofocus licensed to novartis and dexcom active on the rapid eval team vetting new google x moonshot ideas 2013 lollipuff co founder cto and board member ycombinator w2013 co founded an authenticated designer consignment marketplace part of y combinator s winter 2013 class featured in forbes techcrunch and venturebeat lollipuff com 2011 2012 duke university postdoctoral researcher nsf cra computing innovation fellow worked with dr matt reynolds on cutting edge wireless backscatter systems wireless power harvesting and high speed 5 10 mbps wireless data transfer akin to souped up uhf rfid tags 2008 2011 georgia institute of technology phd electrical computer engineering healthcare robotics lab under dr charles c kemp thesis ultra high frequency uhf rfid for robot perception and mobile manipulation built some of the first mobile robots capable of operating in real homes 2005 2008 georgia institute of technology ms electrical computer engineering research in rfid enabled robotics wireless power harvesting and wearable computing 2001 2005 university of nebraska dual bs quad majors ee computer engineering cs mathematics graduated with dual bachelor s degrees spanning four majors summers sandia national laboratories livermore ca multiple research internships at sandia national labs featured research academic work spanning robotics wireless systems and human machine interaction iot mobile robots long range sensor tags autonomous robots with uhf rfid for outdoor environmental monitoring cyborg dragonflies in flight neural sensing battery free neural recording from dragonflies in flight via wireless backscatter finding navigating to long range tags in homes rfid guided robots that find and interact with tagged objects in real homes rfid enabled medication delivery adherence autonomous robots delivering the right medication to the right person at the right time rich media tags battery free audio video health sensing uhf rfid tags streaming video audio and ecg all without batteries wireless power robot swarms mobile devices wirelessly powered robot swarms that run forever harvesting energy from surfaces short range uhf readers for robot manipulation custom rfid sensors in a robot s gripper for near certain object identification holonomic mecanum robot base omnidirectional robot with visual odometry for precise mobile manipulation dusty custom robot end effectors a dustpan end effector that robustly grasps objects from the floor 95 success in 1 096 trials gesture recognition via bone conduction piezoelectric sensors that recognize hand and foot gestures through bone conducted sound view all research hizook com i created and ran hizook com a robotics research and industry publication that grew to become one of the top three robotics websites on the internet reaching 30 000 unique monthly visitors and over 4 million cumulative youtube views one of the world s top robotics bloggers ieee spectrum media recognition travis s work has been featured in leading technology business and science publications worldwide view all press coverage deyle com entrepreneur technologist and curiosity seeker building at the intersection of hardware ai and real world impact pages home research publications press connect linkedin google scholar meta design guidelines 2026 travis deyle all rights reserved home research publications press