Founder-led research
Founder and team
Maurice Morrison
Founder and project lead, PMO Robotics / Picassomoesllc
Maurice L. Morrison, also known as Mad Mo Picasso, is the founder of PMO Robotics and the owner of Picassomoesllc in Hillsborough, North Carolina. He has no formal engineering training. The ideas behind PMO Robotics arrived all at once, as numbers and charts he could not explain, and he used AI to turn them into plans and working software. He builds as he goes. His work includes the PMO Robotics platform, HALO Core, a research project for a low-cost EEG communication aid, and PMO Bot. He also runs his own tattoo studio. HALO Core may later serve silent communication for military teams and space crews.
Why HALO
In Maurice's words:
I once watched someone try to talk to a person they loved, and their condition made their words hard to understand. The family tried, and it was still hard. I wished they could just talk to each other. That is why I started HALO. I built it to help people. I build from the problem first. I find a real need, and I don't claim anything works until it's been tested. HALO ACCESS starts with the most basic words there are: yes, no, help, stop and cancel. Then it grows to the things a person needs from a caregiver, like water, pain, reposition and come here. I'm self-taught and I know this is hard. That's why I put in about 76 hours a week, and why at least 20 of them go to this project. When something fails, I'll publish that too.
Time commitment
Picassomoesllc is Maurice's primary and only employment. It runs his tattoo and piercing studio, PMO Robotics and HALO Core. He works about 76 hours a week for the company and plans to commit at least 20 hours a week to HALO ACCESS during Phase I.
PMO Robotics currently operates as a one-person company. The next team-building priorities are EEG engineering, accessibility and AAC expertise, clinical study design and independent test review. Collaborators will be named only with their permission and an agreed role.
Technical accountability
Concepts and plans are labeled separately from measured results. Medical, participant-safety and regulatory decisions require qualified review. No professional license, academic credential or institutional appointment is asserted here.