WPI Today

Antonio Marzoratti, a robotics student and co-founder of Technotonin Industries, spoke with GBH’s All Things Considered along with his business co-founder Arav Tyagi of Boston University about the company’s technology that can adapt manual wheelchairs into powered devices. The pair discussed how their idea became a business and the support they’ve received from wheelchair users and accelerator programs including the Goat Innovators Summer Accelerator at WPI's i3 Lab. 

A group of WPI students, including Michael Massa and Lexi Joseph, helped celebrate National Adoption Day by dressing up as characters including Spider-Man and Rapunzel at the Worcester courthouse. The students are a chapter of the nonprofit A Moment of Magic and were on hand to mark the adoption of 30 children across Worcester county in emotional ceremonies.

A new agreement will allow pre-engineering students at Framingham State to transfer into WPI's School of Engineering to complete a bachelor's degree in engineering if they meet minimum academic requirements. The partnership also provides opportunities for students to join accelerated master's degree programs in data science, medicinal chemistry, and neuroscience.

WPI researchers are partnering with Grensol and XCharge North America to develop an industrial recycling solution for electric vehicle supply equipment, such as EV charging cables and modules in an effort to promote more sustainable electrified travel. The research at WPI is being led by Brajendra Mishra, the Kenneth G. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Mechanical & Materials Engineering and the director of the Metal Processing Institute at WPI, and Akanksha Gupta, a postdoctoral fellow in materials science & engineering.