When people say “computer vision“ or “machine vision“ they usually picture a camera pointed at a part, a neural network, and a bounding box. Joseph Cole, PhD doesn’t start there. Joe starts one layer deeper: how the signal is formed in the first place, what constraints the hardware imposes, and...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
In a recent internal interview, I sat down with RCR Cofounders Duncan Miller and Joseph Cole, PhD to unpack something Joe knows firsthand: what it really takes to make defect detection work in production. Joe spent five years at Applied Materials building and tuning defect metrology algorithms f...
Samantha Town
Events and Outreach
I no longer believe a junior web developer is a viable career path. Senior web developer is next on the chopping block. I manage my AI agent like it's a junior dev. I only provide prompt engineering, then submit PR code reviews and change requests. The exact same way I used to work with a human j...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
Forget the hype. Robotics isn’t about humanoids or sci-fi futures. It’s a discipline grounded in mathematics, physics, software, and hardware. Tools used to solve real problems. At its core, robotics is about building systems that sense the world, make decisions, and act with purpose. Anyone can...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
By the time you've SSH’d into your robot for the fifth time in one day, zip ties in one hand and a battery cable in the other, you start to realize: robotics isn’t just software. And it’s definitely not just simulation. As a software engineer coming into robotics, I didn’t fully get it either. I...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
Real Credentials. Real Solar. Real Impact. We’re excited to share a major milestone in our mission to build tools—and careers—that matter. The North American Board of Certified Energy Professionals (NABCEP) has approved Waivolt Trade School by Rose City Robotics as an Accredited Training Provide...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
When Boston Dynamics released its latest demo of the Atlas humanoid robot last week—this time under the joint stewardship of Hyundai and Toyota—it wasn’t just a showcase of robotics flair. It was a subtle but significant shift in what we expect from autonomous systems: not just balance and mobili...
Samantha Town
Events and Outreach
As robots become more capable and autonomous, a major challenge remains: enabling real-time decision-making at the edge. NVIDIA's latest innovation, Jetson Thor, tackles that challenge head-on. Launched as part of NVIDIA’s broader push into Physical AI, Jetson Thor is a compact, high-performance...
Samantha Town
Events and Outreach
In biomedical imaging, brighter is often better. Higher fluorescence signal enables clearer detection of biomarkers, improved image contrast, and lower detection limits—especially important in early disease diagnostics. However, many fluorophores suffer from low quantum yield or are inefficient i...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
Joseph R. Cole’s Research in Plasmonic Nanoparticles Joseph R. Cole, a researcher at Rice University (in Naomi Halas’s group), co-authored several influential papers on plasmonic nanoparticles – primarily gold nanoshells and nanorods – for biomedical and solar-energy applications. His 2006–2009 ...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
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