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CMURobotics RI Seminar: Mel Torrie of Autonomous Solutions
As guest speaker for a CMURobotics RI Seminar, titled Lessons Learned Bootstrapping a Robotic Vehicle Company, Mel Torrie of Autonomous Solutions (Petersboro, Utah), describes how he got into robotics in the first place, why he made the jump from academia to a startup, how that startup survived their “near-death experience”, what the company has been doing since, and what he’s learned along the way. There is a strong agricultural theme, both in his original motivation and in the history and current operation of Autonomous Solutions.
Mel Torrie was recently interviewed by Robots Podcast
tags: agricultural robotics, Autonomous Car, autonomous driving, autonomous vehicle, military robotics, Robot Car
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