Abaxis
Medventure associates
A three-thousand-dollar glue-dispensing robot from a company in New Jersey called Fisnar. The Fisnar robot was a pretty rudimentary piece of machinery. It was a mechanical arm fixed to a gantry that had three degrees of motion: right and left; forward and back; and up and down.
Yves Béhar, the Swiss-born industrial designer
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One of his most lucrative plays involved repurposing a cotton candy spinner to turn drugs into fast-dissolving capsules.