Sensing strategies for the heavy vehicle marketplace are evolving to take advantage of powerful capabilities that have emerged post DAPRA Grand Challenge.

The Velodyne HDL-64E is a ground breaking laser vision system that crushed the competition at the 2007 DARPA urban challenge.

I’m sitting back stage today at The Singularity Summit, enjoying the presentations and doing my best to stay out of the way. My chief responsibility (self assigned) is to tweet and twine the event has it happens. I’ve not used these two tools in conjunction before, but I am finding that they have [...]

When scientists at NASA send a command to a robot on Mars, it can take between 8 and 42 minutes before the operator knows that the command was performed successfully.   Even here on earth, commands sent to local robots may still take up to a second to to be performed.   It doesn’t sound like a [...]

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 [...]

At the recent National Instruments NI Week event, SciVestor caught up with Dr. Sam Kherat, manager of the Pittsburgh Automation Center for Caterpillar…