Perrone Robotics is a robotics software company based out of Charlottesville, Virginia and formed in 2001. The company forme
Team Jefferson
as a low budget side project in 2004 to build an autonomous robotic dune buggy for participation in the 2005

DARPA Grand Challenge The DARPA Grand Challenge is a prize competition for American autonomous vehicles, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the most prominent research organization of the United States Department of Defense. Congress has authorize ...

. The company was at th
2006 JavaOne conference
with their robotic dune bugg

and received
Duke Award
in the emerging technology category for Tommy & MAX. The company has reformed Team Jefferson to participate in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge with partners such a
Fair-Isaac Corporation

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the ...

, and the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United S ...

. The CEO spoke at the

Consumer Electronics Show CES (; formerly an initialism for Consumer Electronics Show) is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). Held in January at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Winchester, Nevada, United States, the event typi ...

(CES) 2007 in Las Vegas describing the emerging consumer robotics market and how to 'roboticize' consumer product

References

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External links

www.perronerobotics.com
Robotics companies of the United States