Professional Reflections
Talking to Tocalabs Real-world skills remains at the heart of our approach and our connections to industry are a critical part of the programmes. This year, our live projects with ongoing collaborators, Tocalabs, featured the conceptualisation and industrial design of TocaHive, the hardware housing the onsite Toca platform
Tocalabs is a scale-up software automation company headquartered in Reading, UK. Our work focuses on building a no-code, highly productive scalable Enterprise Automation Platform called Toca. Toca is enabling businesses in their digital transformation, improving operational efficiency and allowing them far greater agility than ever before. It includes the ability to automate across all systems within a business through the use of Bots,
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PRODUCT DESIGN Middlesex University School of Science and Technology
furthermore for those businesses to then be able to easily create user apps for their customers and employees. Tocalabs Director, Mat Rule, says, “we've been enjoying working with Middlesex University and RedLoop for a couple of years, previously on a physical robotic platform called ‘Cara’, that was focused on controlling physical touchscreen devices. Tocalabs and its employees are very much driven by the desire to solve business problems with
deep technology and true innovation. Our focus is always on achieving a successful delivery for our customers and so our solutions must be the best in function and design, that is one of our unique selling points. “Our platform is typically hosted in the cloud however, last year, we came across a problem where some of our customers required our solution to be both hosted in the cloud and also partly on-premise. The on-premise
