The Pacific Northwest has long been a hub for battery innovation, with companies, researchers, and investors working to advance energy storage solutions for everything from electric vehicles to grid-scale storage. Now, a new piece of legislation—Oregon’s House Bill 2062 (HB 2062)—is poised to res...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
It’s been one wild week on the grant front! In a dramatic twist, federal grant funding was temporarily halted by executive order—though thankfully, the funding doors swung open again the very next day at least for now. At Rose City Robotics we depend on federal grants to fund our early innovative...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
We are thrilled to announce that Rose City Robotics has officially completed a merger with Waivolt, an online training platform dedicated to using AI to provide free technical solar courses and educational tools. As an open-startup and Oregon benefit company, Waivolt has been a trailblazer in dem...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
The world is experiencing an unprecedented demand for machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics. From autonomous vehicles to precision agriculture and advanced manufacturing, the rapid expansion of AI-enabled robotics is fueling the need for larger and more sophisticated d...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
We have partnered with PNW Battery Collaborative based in Seattle to offer a Portland hosted session of the Collaborative's bi-monthly meeting. Don’t miss it—RSVP today! The Pacific Northwest is a leader innovation in batteries, and Oregon is a critical part of this ecosystem. With global momentu...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
We are introducing our latest prototype: Rosie the Robot, which we are now using in our lab to collect machine learning datasets. This prototype will help us to develop a proof of concept for our autonomous disassembly system for EV batteries by demonstrating that we can collect human guided trai...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
As the co-founder of Rose City Robotics, I am beyond thrilled to share our experience at this year’s Bend Venture Conference (BVC), where we were honored to win the Audience Favorite Award. The 21st annual Bend Venture Conference was held at Tower Theatre on October 17-18, 2024. Fourteen impressi...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
We are thrilled to announce that last week Waivolt received approval from NABCEP as an Accredited Training Provider, with our 0 to Solar Hero: Free 18-hour Advanced Solar PV and the NEC Training course listed in the NABCEP Course Catalog. Free 18-hour Advanced Solar PV and the NEC TrainingThis fr...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
Researchers at Stanford invented a way to use transformers for robot motion planning with visual feedback called Action Chunking with Transformers (ACT). Action chunking is a concept from psychology that describes how our brain groups sequences of actions together as a chunk and executes the whol...
Joseph Cole
Technology and Vision
I'm excited and honored to announce that we won the Early Stage Audience Favorite Award with a $3,000 cash prize and have advanced to the finals with a chance to pitch at this year's Bend Venture Conference (BVC). BVC is the Pacific Northwest's largest angel conference and for over two decades, B...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
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