E74 Conor McGinn, CEO at Akara Robotics and Funded Investigator at the ADAPT Centre

In today's show, we're delighted to welcome back Conor McGinn, CEO at Akara Robotics and Funded Investigator at the ADAPT Centre. A spinout from one of Europe’s leading robotics labs at Trinity College Dublin, Akara Robotics' mission is to develop new technologies that can empower and support frontline workers in the healthcare industry.

Akara offers an end-to-end disinfectant solution that can be deployed in hospitals, nursing homes and potentially endless other areas where harmful germs reside. The system uses a patent-protected, state-of-the-art disinfection robot known as ‘Violet’, which has emerged from nearly two years of collaboration with some of Ireland's leading microbiologists at Trinity College Dublin.

Topics include:

• The work he is doing at Akara Robotics
• Their Human centered approach to developing Robots
• The importance of collaboration to achieve success
• How their recent funding will help grow the company 
• Technologies used to create their disinfection robot 'Violet'
• How 'Violet' will impact the Healthcare industry