By Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist

Russ Wilcox has been busy, both personally and professionally, since he left the Cambridge display-maker E Ink in 2010. E Ink had helped to pioneer the market for e-books with paper-like displays that consumed very little power. It was acquired by a Taiwanese company, Prime View, in 2009.

First, Wilcox took his family on a year-long trip around the world, which ended last July.

Now, Wilcox, who helped start E Ink back in 1997, is once again getting plugged in to Boston's startup scene. Harvest Automation is announcing today that Wilcox will join its board; Harvest makes robots that move potted plants around at nurseries. (I last wrote about the company in November, when Harvest raised $7.8 million from investors.) Harvest is "poised for an exciting product launch and sales growth," Wilcox writes via e-mail. "As a director I hope to actively share the operating lessons we learned at E Ink."

Wilcox tells me he's hoping to start a new venture in the energy sector, and he has also been making a string of angel investments. (You can find him on AngelList.) They include:

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