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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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Three Questions for Colin Angle – iRobot
SciVestor spoke with Colin Angle, co-founder and CEO of iRobot Corporation. We asked him about how iRobot will change the world, the importance of Moore’s Law, and why the business community should be interested. We also got his take on the state of the emerging robotics industry.
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SciVestor Video – Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap 2010-2020
SciVestor Executive Director Jonas Lamis narrates the Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap that was presented at RoboBusiness 2008. This presentation is based in part on Robot Central’s observations, research, and opinions of emergent technologies from the DARPA Grand Challenge series of competitions. It highlights progress and challenges in the technologies necessary to facilitate civilian autonomous vehicles. Mr. [...]
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MIT’s Technology Awakens Mobile Devices–Robots Next?
The SynTactic Analysis using Reversible Transformations (“START”) system is a super information-finding technology that was developed by Boris Katz and his associates of the InfoLab Group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It’s a system that’s been running since 1993–long before Google came along. The system has two syntactic modules: One for [...]
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Colin Angle on the Business(es) of Robotics
Blogging from RoboBusiness in Pittsburgh this week. Much to my disappointment, the Convention Center does not have wireless access, so blog postings are coming out when possible. Colin Angle, Co Founder and CEO of iRobot spent 45 minutes romping through robotics market business concepts. He presented 21 (I only captured 20 for some reason) – [...]
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Trossen RoboDevelopment Speech Now Available Online
At this year’s RoboDevelopment conference, Matt Trossen of Trossen Robotics spoke about robot adoption and industry standards. Robotics and computers are merging, there is no doubt about it, but questions remain- Why is it taking so long? Where do the standards belong? What tools are in the marketplace which assist integration? What are the necessary [...]
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Sensor Technology May Optimize Driving
The DARPA Urban Challenge created an unprecedented concentration of ambition, intelligence, technology, and money in an ecosystem that advanced autonomous mobility and related technologies by decades. One such advancement was with the ibeo Lux Laser Scanning system. ibeo is a subsidiary of SICK, veteran makers of basic-but-pervasive laser scanning technology. ibeo sponsored Team Lux which [...]
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Central Texas Robot Makes Waves
One of the best applications for a robot is one requiring repetitive and consistent behaviors. The mapping of subsurface characteristics of lakes is just such an endeavor. “These studies are extremely tedious. Detailed mapping requires piloting the boat very slowly back and forth across the same water body. It would be like mowing several thousand [...]
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