WHITE COLLAR | ISSUE 009
WHITE COLLAR | ISSUE 001
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icture this, a group of men huddled behind the bar at San Francisco’s Four Seasons. The air is charged with muffled conversation, the tone of which betrays a sense of interest and child-like wonder. “It’s got character,” one voice cuts across the buzz. It’s Ron Okamoto, Apple’s Head of Developer Relations. He was talking about the Mekamon, a small robot designed to look like the mechanical step-child of a crab and Spider. At the receiving end of this suppressed complement was Silas Adekunle, the founder and CEO of Reach Robotics, the company that brought the Mekamon to life. What started as a 15 minute question and answer session between Ron and Silas spilled over into an hour long conversation. Ron knew for a fact then, what he rest of the world is only starting to find out, now; the team from Reach Robotics is onto something disruptive, and that he had to bring them back with them to Apple Park in Cupertino, California. It has been over a year since that Interaction with the development team at Apple. In that time the Mekamon has evolved and grown
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