The arrival of Cosmos … and the pandemic
Although Mauricio Corona did not like programming, he did understand it, and very well. His first robot was made eight years ago and is called Cosmos. It is a small machine similar to a tractor, which connects to the cell phone and moves semi-autonomously.
It has ultrasonic night sensors and with its legs it hooks some cubes and stacks them, as if it were a Lego. Cosmos can recognize you, laugh, do routines. It is programmed with an antenna called scratch. “You tell him: walk 10 cm, pick up the block and turn around. He does it ”, the expert tells excitedly.
“I never loved programming, from my career I said that I would not dedicate myself to this (laughs). But I read a lot on the subject and love entered me when I understood how important it is. In the next five years, programming will be the backbone of artificial intelligence, “he says.
Today, Corona has more logical and physical bots, while BPGurus became a consultancy that offers specialized services in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, RPA (Robotic Process Automation), Bots, Machine Learning and Humanoid Robotics.
From it Gesedig emerges, a subsidiary that Corona founded to implement the strategies designed by the parent company for each client. Together, they give courses on picosatellites for the aerospace industry; blockchain for financial companies and best service management practices, business models and digital transformation for the rest of the sectors.
Corona believes that the most significant success in his professional career was thinking that technology is not separate from business. “Many did not understand it until the pandemic came,” he says. In fact, the change in mindset and the prevailing need to optimize processes influenced BPGurus to grow 300% in the last two years.
Corona is now designing a course in partnership with scientists from Japan, as well as an educational program on data intelligence for La Salle. He has also taught at the Universidad Anáhuac and the Universidad Panamericana and is the co-author of three IT management books, available in English, Japanese, French, German, and Spanish.
Its companies have a presence in Guatemala, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Canada, the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. In his opinion, the international relationship has helped him a lot to develop advanced technology in Mexico, but there is still much to learn from Asia and Europe.
“Right now we are working with Japan to move robots with neuroscience, and no longer with programming. What we do is use sensors so that the robot moves its arm, when you move yours. We firmly believe that this is the immediate future ”, he points out.