Archive for Jonas Lamis
Velodyne LIDAR HDL-64E demo
Bruce Hall, President of Velodyne LIDAR demonstrates the HDL-64E. The 64E is a ground breaking laser vision system that crushed the competition at the 2007 DARPA urban challenge. Today, Velodyne sells the 64E (list price $75,000) to organizations wishing to integrate 1″ accuracy GIS data at highway speeds.
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Robot executives featured in SciVestor workshop
On Friday, October 24th, SciVestor and The Singularity Institute present the Emerging Technologies Workshop. This event is sold out, and is being held at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The day’s agenda follows: Schedule 8:30am Doors open 9:00am Registration – coffee and breakfast bar available 9:30am Opening Keynote – Jonas Lamis, [...]
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Readybot! Where have you been all my life?
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the Readybot Challenge is a non-profit research group composed of senior engineers and designers from the networking, motion control, ergonomics, and software industries. Their mission: to build a robot that can clean a kitchen.
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Three Questions with Sam Kherat, Caterpillar
At the recent National Instruments NI Week event, SciVestor caught up with Dr. Sam Kherat, manager of the Pittsburgh Automation Center for Caterpillar. Dr. Kherat talks about CATs vision of autonomous heavy vehicles, their focus on sensing technologies, and their partnership with NI.
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National Instruments shows Robot Partnerships
SciVestor took a tour of the Robotics Pavilion at National Instruments’ NI Week 2008. Anu Saha, NI marketing manager discusses academic and corporate partnerships that feature LabView and CompactRIO technologies.
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Join SciVestor at The Singularity Summit
Intel CTO and Ray Kurzweil Among Visionaries Headlining Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership SAN JOSE, CA, August 29, 2008 – Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership takes place October 25 at the intimate Montgomery Theater in San Jose, CA, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence announced today. Now in its third year, the Singularity [...]
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Three Questions with Brad Heath – Virtex Assembly
Virtex Assembly is a high tech circuit board assembly firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founder and CEO Brad Heath sat down with SciVestor to discuss how Virtex is going to change the world, why Moore’s Law is driving automation gains, and why the business community cares about what Virtex is doing.
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Three Questions for Chetan Kapoor – Agile Planet
Chetan Kapoor is a roboticist at The University of Texas and CEO of Agile Planet. We spoke about how his firm’s control software might change the world in the years ahead, what is driving robotics growth, and why business should take note.
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Three Questions for Dan Kara – Robotics Trends
SciVestor spoke with Dan Kara, CEO of Robotics Trends. Robotics Trends is an events and research firm focused on the robotics industry. They run the RoboBusiness and RoboDevelopment events. He discusses the rise of autonomy, the future of the robotics industry, and offers advice to the investment community.
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Three Questions for Matt Mason – CMU
SciVestor sat down with Matt Mason, Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He discusses how the Institute might change the world, why Moore’s Law is important to roboticists, and why business should keep an eye on CMU.
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