Gender
Male
About
Location
London
About Me:
Cesar Harada (27) is a designer and researcher. French and Japanese, he moved from Boston to the Gulf of Mexico to develop Protei, an Oil Spill cleaning robot. Cesar is TED Senior Fellow, also the coordinator of the Open_Sailing group which aim is to build the International_Ocean_Station as an Open Hardware project. Cesar was recently project leader at MIT, construction manager of the Mobile technology *iHub_ in Nairobi Kenya. He graduated from the Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, and has background in industrial design, animation film and construction. Cesar loves judo, cycling, swimming and sailing :) protei.org
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
We are developing Protei : a low-cost open-source oil collecting robot that autonomously sails upwind, intercepting oil sheens going downwind. Protei combines conventional technologies in an innovative design that we can implement in the short term to address timely environmental crisis such as the BP Oil Spill, cleaning the ocean gyre garbage patches or performing ocean research. We need your help to build our next prototype of Protei - the first articulated sailing boat that can tack upwind pulling a long heavy payload and initiating a revolutionary family in ocean robotics. http://protei.org
Hometown:
London
