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Trevor Blackwell and the Art of Staying Upright
He helped put shops on the web, startups on a new footing and robots on two uncertain legs. Across three decades, Trevor Blackwell has kept returning to the same absorbing question: how do you make an unstable system work?
Deborah Theobald
Deborah Theobald is the co-founder and CEO of b Inc. (formerly Vecna Technologies), a Burlington, Massachusetts company building telepresence robots and automation for healthcare, education, government, and tourism. An MIT-trained aerospace engineer with a master's in space robotics, she has spent more than two decades turning research-grade robotics into tools that help people connect and get care. She also founded VecnaCares, a charitable venture deploying health-record technology in low-resource settings across Africa, Haiti, and beyond. Her guiding belief: technology should serve humanity, not overshadow it.