Don’t call it BioBots anymore: Allevi is the new name of the Pennovation-based startup, makers of a 3D printer for live tissue, that is now making a play for the software space in addition to its hardware offering.

BioBots is now Allevi, and we’ve got lots to tell you about.
  
When we founded the company in 2014, our mission was to make it easy to design and engineer biology. Bioprinters on the market were expensive, inaccessible, and difficult to use.  We created our beta device to tackle these problems and were humbled by its adoption within the community. Three years later, we believe in our mission even more strongly, as we’ve grown to serve hundreds of labs in all corners of the world.
  

Pennovation Member, Aerial Applications, provided wide area damage assessment in the wake of Hurricane Irma, flying over 400 square miles to capture aerial imagery.

Inside Grays Ferry’s Pennovation Center — a 58,000-square-foot research hub from the University of Pennsylvania — you’ll find a half dozen drone startups building out their products and testing their flying gizmos.

Millennials to Watch in Life Sciences

Fountain of Youth: A stream of young entrepreneurs out to improve human health

Three decades ago, when the region’s life science industry was first taking shape, the sector featured about a dozen biotechnology firms led primarily by pharmaceutical company veterans.

The Pennovation Works is a 21st Century hub for innovation and industry. Beginning with the creation of the Pennovation Center - a building redesigned and adapted from a 20th Century paint factory - the Pennovation Works consists of facilities existing for the purpose of turning ideas into economic opportunities for the surrounding area and neighborhoods. Interestingly, when you take a look at the site's colorful history, you see that it's been an incubator for industry and innovation in the Philadelphia area for more than 200 years.

Michelle Caffrey

Reporter - Philadelphia Business Journal

Philadelphia's aging infrastructure could benefit from the winning idea of the first-ever Comcast-Pennovation Challenge, after a multidisciplinary team of University of Pennsylvania students took home the grand prize by designing internet of things technology that can monitor the stability of bridges.