Silas Adekunle
Silas Adekunle is a Nigerian-British inventor and technology entrepreneur known for creating the world's first intelligent gaming robot.
Professional life
Adekunle co-founded and was the CEO of Reach Robotics, a UK-based augmented reality gaming company that created robots for gaming and STEM education. The startup developed a 4-legged robot with lifelike movement called MekaMon.The system animated video game by combining robotics with augmented reality. Reach Robotics also developed an app, which controlled the MekaMon and acted as a portal to digital content. Adekunle received $12 million from investors, including London Venture Partners, allowing the company to expand to about 65 full-time employees at its peak.
In 2018, Adekunle partnered with Apple, signing an exclusive distribution deal to sell his product in both the United States and Britain. Reach Robotics shut down on 2 September 2019 owing to "inherent challenges in the consumer robotics sector". Blueprint Lab, a robot manufacturing company adopts the name '' in July 2022.
Adekunle is now focused on using MekaMon to develop the Robotics education ecosystem across Africa and cloud infrastructure for industrial automation in the UK. He founded the company Awarri, which aims to enable the development and adaptation of advanced AI and robotics technology in Africa. As so January 2020, Adekunle is also the co-founder and CEO of. The company aims to help developers to quickly and securely implement the cloud infrastructure needed to remotely monitor, manage and control their robots, industrial automation and IOT devices.