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Henry Thorne is an innovator who enjoys great thoughts and trying to turn them into reality. A graduate of the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in the early 80s, Thorne worked at General Motors for five years engineering robotic systems including the largest and most reliable robotic arc welding assembly line ever created producing five miles of linear arc weld per day for the frames of most GM cars. He founded Cycle Time Corporation in 1990 where he created the first graphic user interface for industrial robots. That technology is now used on over 5,000 robots within Big Three Automotive. While at Cycle Time, he also engineered the first fully automated tool center point calibration system which is licensed exclusively to the largest robot company in the world, ABB Robotics Inc.
In 1995, Thorne turned his attention to mobile robots and created the first personal robot CYE which was sold by Probotics Inc. and then later by The Educational Robot Company. He founded Aethon in 2001 to commercialize a larger and more capable mobile robot, TUG, which is used to autonomously deliver supplies of all kinds to hospital departments. In 2005, Thorne co-founded Thorley Industries to innovate and drive business in existing consumer markets where the continued decline in the cost of electronics enables the delivery of new benefits at standard price points. The first Thorley Industries creation is 4Moms (www.4momsonline.com), a juvenile product company with a line of revolutionary infant bathing products. | 