Robert Bigler is a designer and an engineer with a passion for automation and electric vehicles. With a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, he taught himself electronics and computer programming to develop extremely compact and flexible motion-control and automation products. After growing his first company to be a global force among multi-billion-dollar competitors, Robert sold it and created an incubator in the Silicon Valley.
After graduating from SJSU 1987, Robert co-founded Animatics Corporation. He invented, patented and commercialized the industry’s first fully integrated servo systems called the "SmartMotor". Animatics grew to the point of having offices in Japan, California, NY, the UK and Germany. With more than 130 worldwide distributors they sold their components into thousands of demanding applications, from undersea robots to experiments in the Space Station. They were honored with several awards being placed INC. 500 and Silicon Valley Business Journal lists of fastest growing companies. Moog Incorporated (a well respected multi-billion dollar motion control company) acquired Animatics in 2011.
Selling Animatics to Moog empowered Robert to start Equalia with headquarters in Mountain View, CA (the same city he was born in). Equalia’s team is completely focused on building a revolutionary mobility device called the HoverBoard. Robert will bring the HoverBoard to market in 2015.
