June 3rd, 2008 by | No Comments
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.
May 16th, 2008 by Ray Renteria | No Comments
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 [...]
April 3rd, 2008 by | No Comments
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 [...]
September 17th, 2007 by Ray Renteria | No Comments
Carnegie Mellon’s Field Robotics Center and Robotics Institute is one to demonstrate its competitive nature and technical prowess.
In 2004 they traveled the farthest in the premiere DARPA Grand Challenge.
Their robots placed second and third in the 2005 run.
They’re trying it again this October at the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.
Now, the X Prize foundation has thrown [...]