Platforms
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 [...]
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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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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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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 including [...]
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DARPA Urban Challenge Team Develops Autonomy-In-A-Box Product
Team Gray may not have advanced to the finals but they’ve got their sights on bigger targets. With their latest autonomy in-a-box they may be positioned to become the Microsoft and IBM of autonomous vehicles. Chief Engineer Paul Trepagnier explained that the Autonomous Vehicle System, or AVS for short, is a completely self-contained unit comprised [...]
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Ugobe CTO John Sosoka: Inside Pleo at Maker Faire 2007
Robot Central recently had the opportunity to have a candid one-on-one talk, arranged by Jonas Lamis, Executive Director of SciVestor and contributor to Robot Central, with John Sosoka, CTO of Ugobe, makers of Pleo at Maker Faire 2007. I fully admit that I was sure I would be talking to John about just another fancy [...]
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Microsoft and Tmsuk Create Robotic Alliance: Showtime?
Several days ago we learned that Microsoft is creating a technical alliance with Japan robot player Tmsuk (pronounced “tim suck”) to establish a standard robotics platform. It represents the first time a strategic relationship has been established between a major software platform maker and a robot manufacturer. At stake is the effort to bring robots [...]
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