Max Planck Institute and Brown University team up on new company looking to create 3D digital avatars.
Body Labs, a US-based company for creating three-dimension digital avatars, has spun out after a decade of research from US-based Brown University and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.
Bill O’Farrell, chief executive of Body Labs and co-founder with Eric Rachlin, Alex Weiss, and Michael Black, said: “Using the algorithms developed at Brown and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, we believe we can create a new interface between consumers and businesses.
“Consumers will be able to find, acquire and compare goods and services based on their particular size, shape and range of motion,” he adds.
Florian Kirschenhofer, startup manager, and Bernd Ctortecka, licensing manager, both at Max Planck Innovation, the Max Planck Society’s technology transfer organization, added in a joint statement: “We are delighted that we were able to gain the support of Bill O’Farrell for this new 3D technology, who is an extremely experienced and successful entrepreneur with a far-reaching industry network.”
Other spin-offs from Max Planck in the past year include
Modag, which is trying to treat neurodegenerative diseases and raised €8m ($12m) from Bayerische Patentallianz representing the two research institutions LMU and Max Planck Society.
Picture: German scientist Max Planck. Source: Wikipedia
