- Perrone Robotics
Perrone Robotics is a robotics software company based out of Charlottesville, Virginia and formed in 2001. The company formed [http://www.teamjefferson.com 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 company was at the [http://www.sun.com/2006-0523/feature/index.jsp 2006 JavaOne conference] with their robotic dune buggy [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/team-07.html 'Tommy'] and received a [http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-05/sunflash.20060515.2.xml 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 as [http://www.fairisaac.com/Fairisaac/News/Press+Releases/Fair+Isaac+Decision+Management+Technology+to+Help+Navigate+Unmanned+Vehicle+in+2007+DARPA+Grand+Chal.htm Fair-Isaac Corporation] ,
Sun Microsystems , and theUniversity of Virginia .The CEO spoke at the
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2007 in Las Vegas describing the emerging consumer robotics market and how to 'roboticize' consumer products [http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/conferences/search/session_detail.asp?ID_session=R4] .External links
* [http://www.perronerobotics.com www.perronerobotics.com]
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