A non-profit Research Center of the Pratt Institute, the Consortium for Research & Robotics seeks to bring diverse yet complimentary communities together into an ecosystem that catalyzes entrepreneurial, educational, and social benefit through creative research with frontier technologies. We challenge conventional uses of industrial technologies by engaging designers, engineers, artists, entrepreneurs and educators in a new paradigm that puts emerging tools in the hands of creative communities to drive ethical outcomes for technology driven innovations in business and education.