[Robotgroup] Robot Car made in AUSTIN ! ? ! See it next Thursday 11/16/06

[Dan Vogler]

FORWARD FROM : info at austinchips.com 

REMINDER - The next AustinChips event is a week from today - Thursday
November 16th at 6pm.  Come see the Robot Car - it's fascinating!

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Dear fellow semiconductor professionals:

As part of the AustinChips speaker series, mark your calendars for
Thursday, November 16th, to come hear the team from the all-volunteer
Austin Robot Technology. They will discuss their fully autonomous robot
vehicle and their bid to win the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge. It should be
a fascinating event.

As always, free beer and chips will be served.

THE DETAILS:
AustinChips Speaker Series
Thursday November 16th
“Austin Robot Technology’s autonomous robot vehicle and the DARPA Grand
Challenge”
Thompson Conference Center
6-8 pm
Free parking available - http://www.utexas.edu/cee/tcc/map.shtml

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The DARPA Grand Challenge is a competition for driverless autonomous robot
cars.  DARPA has held two such events to-date.  The $1 million offered in
2004 went unclaimed when the best performer failed within 7 miles of the
start of a 142 mile course in the desert.  Stanford University won the
2005 Grand Challenge and Austin Robot Technology’s all-volunteer team made
it to the semi-finals.

The next event in the DARPA Grand Challenge series is the Urban Challenge,
to be held in November of 2007 with vehicles competing in a mock urban
environment negotiating traffic circles, stop signs, merging into traffic
and parking.  Austin Robot Technology and The University of Texas at
Austin are gearing up to compete again in 2007.

Austin Robot Technology’s team members will discuss the challenges faced
in building an autonomous robot vehicle and what it will take to be
competitive at the Urban Challenge.  The presentation will include a
discussion of the processing requirements for real-time vision and how the
integration of graphic processing units into CPUs will make possible
low-cost vision sensors.  The team’s autonomous SUV will be on-site at the
entrance to the Thompson Center.

For more information visit:
http://www.austinrobot.com/about/index.html
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/docs/Urban_Challenge_announcement_update
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This event is sponsored by Austin Ventures

About Austin Ventures
Austin Ventures has been working with talented entrepreneurs to build
valuable companies since 1979. With $2.4 billion under management, AV is
the most active venture capital firm in Texas, and one of the most
established in the nation. With a focus on enterprise software, computer
and communications hardware, and business services, Austin Ventures
invests at all stages of company development, from $100,000 “planned
experiments” to $50+ million investments in management buyouts.  Visit us
online at www.austinventures.com.

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based in the Dallas/Metroplex area, visit www.metrochips.org
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