Charles Grinnell

Harvest Automation, Inc. designs and produces robotics for manual labor applications. It enables growers to create a sustainable workforce of robots working safely alongside people to increase efficiency, reliability and plant quality. The firm’s robots are powering the next innovation surge in agriculture and has engineered the first practical, scalable robots for a range of agricultural applications. The company was founded by Clara Vu, Paul E. Sandin, Charles M. Grinnell and Joseph L. Jones in 2008 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA.

European Organization for Nuclear Research engages in the research of physics. Its main area of research is particle physics which is the study of the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces acting between them. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

DEKA Research & Development Corp. manufactures medical devices. Its products include home choice PD machine, iBOT, DEKA arm, Stirling, Segway and water purification. The firm focuses on the development of radical new technologies that span a diverse set of applications. The company was founded by Dean L. Kamen in 1982 and is headquartered in Manchester, NH.