Gill Pratt

Former DARPA Program Manager Gill Pratt to direct Toyota’s new $50M robotics investment

Ioannis K. Erripis 04 Sep 2015

In a surprise move today, Toyota held a press conference (see video below) announcing a substantial investment in robotics and AI research to develop "advanced driving support" technology, with forme...

DARPA’s Gill Pratt on Google’s robotics investments

Gill Pratt and Robohub Editors 19 Mar 2014

When Google bought Boston Dynamics last December, the news made headlines, but it was not the first time the Internet giant has invested in DARPA-funded robotics. As part of Robohub's Big Deals series...

DARPA’s Virtual Robotics Challenge a practical step forward on the long road toward disaster-response capable humanoids

Hallie Siegel 24 Jul 2013

Based on a media rountable discussion with DRC Program Manager Gill Pratt and CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation Brian Gerkey. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster was a wake-up call...

DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge results

Andra Keay 27 Jun 2013

The first competition of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was a software simulation of humanoid rescue work. The 6 best teams were to be allocated ATLAS robots for the next stage of the challenge, b...

DARPA Robotics Challenge update | IEEE Spectrum

Mike Hamer 16 Oct 2012

Dr. Gill Pratt gave a keynote address at IROS and talked about the DARPA Robotics Challenge, including a new video of the Boston Dynamics ATLAS... http://youtu.be/AQXvM6Am6BQ See on spectrum.iee...