Lucas Cassiano is founder and CEO of Vitrus, a startup building purpose-built robots and workstations for fully autonomous manufacturing. He previously worked as a product designer at Artificial and at Vicarious, and as an interaction designer at Google. He studied computer engineering in Brazil and at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, then earned a master's degree at MIT, where he was also a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab. He later joined South Park Commons as a founder fellow while building Vitrus in San Francisco.