Gill Pratt

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

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...

04 September 2015, by Ioannis K. Erripis

DARPA’s Gill Pratt on Google’s robotics investments

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...

19 March 2014, by Gill Pratt and Robohub Editors

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

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...

24 July 2013, by Hallie Siegel

DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge results

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...

27 June 2013, by Andra Keay

DARPA Robotics Challenge update | IEEE Spectrum

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...

16 October 2012, by Mike Hamer