Press Releases
Japanese ZMP Inc. Enters Autonomous Vehicle Space
The Japanese company ZMP Inc. has recently announced its intention to deliver a research tool called the ZMP Car Robotics Platform by April, 2009 at a meager cost of about $5.5K per unit. The platform is a complete 1/10th scale vehicle.
The platform is comprised of a stereoscopic camera, NEC Corp’s image processing board, WiFi module, [...]
Stereoscopic Computer Vision Just got a Leg Up
When Stanford University won the DARPA Grand Challenge in ‘05 the team made clear their philosophy that autonomous navigation should be treated as a software problem. While other teams spent their resources on building custom hardware, Dr. Sebastian Thrun simply sent his Stanford team’s Volkswagen Touareg off to get converted to [...]
29Sep2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
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 Summit [...]
Jonas Lamis featured speaker at RoboDevelopment Conference
Robotics Trends has just announced the line up for the Robo Development Conference and Expo ‘08, to be held November 18-19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. SciVestor Executive Director, and RobotCentral contributor Jonas Lamis has been named as a Featured Speaker for the event. Details are available here.
Intelligent Sensor Technologies 2010 to 2020: Impact [...]
23Jul2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
16May2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
Robot Central Glitch Delivered Oversized Email
Due to a configuration error at Robot Central the email subscription system delivered an email comprised of 50 posts. The problem has been fixed. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused our subscribers.
4Nov2007 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
Team Cybernet on the Road to DARPA Urban Challenge
Semifinalist ”Cybervan” Perfecting New Life-Saving Technology in
San Antonio
ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 17, 2007–A DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Urban Challenge National Qualifier, Team Cybernet, is en route to Victorville, California, to compete in the final stages of the competition. The team is spending the remaining time before the main event perfecting the [...]
Braintech’s Latest Vision Software to Support Microsoft Robotics Studio
In a move consistent with the coalescing of robotics market players, Braintech has released a version of its vision software VOLTS-IQ ™ SDK that is designed to work with Microsoft Robotics Studio.
According to their site,
Braintech specializes in the expert design and integration of artificial intelligence for Vision Guided Robotic (VGR) software and solutions. [Their] applications [...]
Google puts $30M on the Table to First who Lands and Drives Robot on Moon
The world is abuzz with today’s news that Google will back the Lunar X Prize. The $30M prize money is broken out into a $20M Grand Prize, $5M Second Prize, and $5M in bonus prizes. The offer is good through 2012 after which the grand prize will drop to $15M through 2014. [...]
13Sep2007 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
Pleo Deliveries Postponed due to Battery Issues
I’ve got two Pleo “First Hatch” dinosaur robots on allocation from Ugobe this fall. One for the kiddies and one to sell on eBay [Send your preemptive bids to jonas@robotcentral.com]. At 9am CT this morning, Ugobe sent out the following announcement stating an unquantified time delay in shipment of Pleo 1.0 due [...]
11Sep2007 | Jonas Lamis | 1 comment | Continued