Enables Robots to Operate Collision-Free in Dynamic, Unstructured Environments BOSTON (Mar. 26, 2019) – Realtime Robotics, an innovative automation startup incubated at MassRobotics, has been selected from a highly competitive field as a finalist in the Launch Pad Startup Competition to be held at Automate in Chicago. The company, along with six others, will [...]
Realtime Robotics on-boards Jason Barton as Chief Commercial Officer Brings Robotics Industry and Global Go-To-Market Expertise to Robotics Start-Up Boston, MA – Nov 26th, 2018 –Realtime Robotics, Inc. today announced it has hired Jason Barton to serve as the Company’s Chief Commercial Officer, effective October 30th, 2018. Founded by Prof. George Konidaris and Prof. [...]
BOSTON, July 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leaders of the Massachusetts innovation community gathered last night at Foley Hoag in Boston for a reception where the state's leading technology industry association announced finalists for the 2018 Mass Tech Leadership Awards. The 15 award categories highlight the vitality, innovation and importance of the region's internationally [...]
Small Business Innovation Research Program Provides Seed Funding for R&D Boston, MA, July 3, 2018 – Realtime Robotics has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for$225,000 to conduct research and development (R&D) work onRisk-Aware Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles. This R&D work will change the way that [...]
Recently Realtime Robotics' CEO, Peter Howard, and Chief Roboticist, George Konidaris, sat down with Toyota AI Ventures for a more in-depth introduction to who we are, what we do and where we are headed. Access the full Q&A here
Realtime received notification today of being selected for DARPA's Phase II for $1.5 million. Once negotiated, this award will enable Realtime to accelerate the development and integration of spatial perception hardware and software tools, and deepen the software tools for the combined spatial perception-motion planning product offering for market release in mid-2019. [...]
Realtime Robotics today kicked off significant new feasibility studies for application of its motion planning technology to support real-time quantitative risk assessment of various path choices in complex urban driving scenarios. The studies are expected to be completed in approximately six months, and are designed to allow performance comparisons with and without the Realtime [...]
Toyota AI Ventures’ Adler: The Next Step In Autonomous Vehicles Is Moving From Perception To Prediction The head of Toyota's new venture fund talks the arrival of self-driving cars, but says they must first overcome a host of technical challenges and public perception issues. Toyota is racing to stay competitive in autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, and robotics [...]
Self-driving Cars vs Humans — 100x Power Efficiency Gap By Nitin Vaish Excerpt: The development of self-driving cars is moving rapidly, with Waymo launching the self-driving car service on the road without front safety driver earlier this month. Kudos to the team! It’s an awesome outcome of the research that was spurred by Darpa urban challenge [...]
