Describing themselves as an accelerator/incubator, Otherlab also suggest that they are better understood not as a single firm but as an assembly of many players from widely different backgrounds, Not unlike several of the longtime major players in the SBIR space - especially involved in the Mission Agencies - company specializes in supporting the type anddiversity of thinking often required by Mission Agencies: creative new approaches and ideas as wwell astried andtrue competencies in advanced manufacturing, energy and energy systems, robotics, and software and hardware interfaces. Otherlab is organized around projects in the renewable and clean energy space, computational geometry, computational design tools, digital fabrication, advanced manufacturing, robotics, and automation & engineered textiles - structured to support a variety of enterprises in various stages of development, from projects in the initial research and development phase, to full blown companies that have spun out.