WHY FARGO?
RYAN SWANSON
Founder and Co-Owner COR Robotics
SPIRITED. EMERGING. INTERCONNECTED. The Competition WalkSmart is at the intersections of a few markets, including fitness tracking and home monitoring, Chamberlain says. "For fitness tracking, FitBit and Garmin have done a good job of creating products for younger, tech-savvy individuals," he says, "but as you might guess, wearables face extreme difficulties with adherence in the senior market. Also, your wrist doesn’t move when you use a walker. Fall prevention is accomplished partially by increasing walker use, and existing products simply are not designed for this purpose." There are a number of competitors in the homemonitoring space, and Chamberlain says that while their solutions are valuable, they're expensive, face fundamental technological limitations and ultimately do little to prevent falls. "Our technology can interface with these solutions to provide a more comprehensive monitoring solution," he says.
"Fargo has an extremely prominent and active entrepreneurial community, which opens up so many opportunities for a young startup like COR Robotics. Fargo is the perfect place to start a small business because if you stick around long enough, you’re going to meet somebody who knows somebody who can help you."
COMPANY OVERVIEW
COR Robotics aims to educate and inspire the next generation of problem-solvers through summer robotics camps, run in coordination with FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) teams. "There are 3,500 FRC teams around the world, and many of them, especially in rural areas, have no robotics programming offered before high school," says COR Robotics Founder Ryan Swanson. "COR Robotics is helping to address this problem by running inexpensive summer robotics camps that serve as a primer for pre-high school robotics programs to start in a district." COR Robotics is the only company in the Upper Midwest working specifically with FRC teams to run summer robotics camps. This connection with FRC teams enables COR to grow much more quickly, while also enabling COR Robotics’ camps to be more exciting and successful, Swanson says.
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