Founder and Chief Robotics Officer - Grinnell More

Grinnell is a founder of North End Technologies and serves as its Chief Robotics Officer. Mr. More is a life-long entrepreneur and robotics industry pioneer. He founded his first robotics company, Real World Interface, Inc. in 1983, the year he graduated high school. Mr. More developed RWI into the leading developer & supplier of academic and research oriented mobile robots and from the mid 1980s through the 1990s RWI supplied the worlds leading robotics research organizations with developmental systems, accelerating their ability to create new robotics algorithms and technologies. Customers included MIT, CMU, Stanford, IBM, NASA, Army Research Labs, Navy Research Labs, Etc.
In 1998 Mr. More merged RWI, Inc. with MIT spin-off IS-Robotics to form the iRobot Corporation. From 1999 to 2003 Mr. More ran iRobot’s Military Systems Division, during which time he established the major military robot platforms and contract awards that continue to underpin iRobot’s defense business, including the PackBot-EOD, Warrior, and SUGV programs and platforms. Mr. More left iRobot shortly after their IPO in 2005 and founded North End Technologies with Partners Tim Root and Tom Ryden.