Alice Agogino

Alice Agogino

Alice M. Agogino is co-founder and CEO of Squishy Robotics, a start-up that provides life-saving, cost-saving information in real time through its rapidly deployable sensor robots. Applications include disaster response, methane and wildfire monitoring, Industrial Internet of things (IIoT), and space exploration. Squishy Robotics won the 2022 East Bay Innovation Award in the Engineering & Design category, receiving a Certificate of Recognition from both the California State Assembly and from the California State Senate. Squishy Robotics was among the recipients of the inaugural “Good Robot” Industry Awards presented by the non-profit industry association, Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR). The SVR Industry Awards celebrate the robotics, automation, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) that will help the world solve global challenges. Squishy Robotics was also a finalist in the 2021 Extreme Tech challenge, which highlighted companies with innovations that address the greatest crises facing humanity and our planet.

Agogino is also a Professor of the Graduate School and the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering, emeritus, at the University of California at Berkeley She directs research in the BEST (Berkeley Energy & Sustainable Technologies) Lab. Agogino has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and has served on a number of committees of the National Academies. She conducts research in robotics, sensor fusion, artificial intelligence, machine learning and product design. Agogino has won numerous teaching, research, outreach and mentoring awards, recently the Forbes 50 Over 50 (2023), Athena Award for Academic Leadership (2020), the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (2018) and ASME Design Theory and Methodology Award (2017). She has supervised 65 PhD dissertations and 197 MS theses/reports.

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    Squishy Robotics
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    CEO and CTO

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