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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 [...]
16May2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap - Presentation
New free research presentation available from SciVestor. You can download it here.
This presentation is being presented at RoboBusiness 2008. It highlights progress and challenges in the technologies necessary to facilitate civilian autonomous vehicles. We discuss a plausible technology driven autonomous vehicle roadmap from 2010 - 2030. The presentation highlights several emerging technology vendors [...]
Grand Challenge Weekend - Subscribe Now to RC’s Daily News Digest
Robot Central analyst Ray Renteria is blogging live from the Urban Challenge site in California this week. You can subscribe to his news feed to get a daily digest of all of the Urban Challenge news from Robot Central. Click here and enter your email address to subscribe.
1Nov2007 | Jonas Lamis | 1 comment | Continued
The Urban Challenge Cometh
[This is a repost of Robot Central's first writeup. We will be counting down to the event where we will be on location providing you with real time updates. --Ray]
On November 3, thirty six of the worlds most advanced autonomous vehicles will be competing against each other to be declared the most advanced. Each will [...]
DARPA Urban Challenge Yields its first Commercial-Grade Innovation
In 2004 the guys from Velodyne who make subwoofers entered a robot into the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge under the name of Team DAD (Digital Auto Drive). Back then, their primary obstacle avoidance system was their proprietary stereoscopic vision system mounted on the roof of their Toyota’s cab.
In 2005 they invented a new kind [...]
Profile of Texas DARPA Urban Challenge Team : Austin Robot Technology
Robot Central had the opportunity to talk with Austin Robot Technology yesterday and watch the smartest Isuzu in history do some autonomous driving. Lets talk about horsepower. No, I’m not referring to Marvin (the name of the aforementioned Isuzu), I’m referring to the world-class talent that makes up this 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge [...]
20Sep2007 | Ray Renteria | 5 comments | Continued
[Exclusive] Rodney Brooks Keynote at Singularity Summit
The Singularity Summit is a two day event happening this weekend in San Francisco. The event is being hosted by SIAI, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. This event is follow-on to last year’s Singularity Summit 1 conducted at Stanford.
Keynoting the event this morning was Rodney Brooks , of CSAIL and iRobot fame. [...]
European Urban Challenge Contestants Claim Their Competition Requires “More Autonomy”
You’ve no doubt heard about the DARPA Urban Challenge in which autonomous vehicles navigate through a simulated urban environment to meet various objectives. A lesser-known (to Americans) competition is being held in Germany with similar ambitions; however, those guys are talking smack about our American robots by claiming that their competition “demands more [...]
28Aug2007 | Ray Renteria | 2 comments | Continued
The Urban Challenge Cometh
On November 3, thirty six of the worlds most advanced autonomous vehicles will be competing against each other to be declared the most advanced. Each will not only be required to demonstrate complex navigational and problem solving skills, but they will also be required to understand rules of the road.
Stanford University took home the prize [...]
