Startupedition luncheon • June 24 • 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM • Metro Region Innovation Hub Why this event mattersGenerative AI has upended the software world—now it’s coming for robots. The automation industry is racing toward its own “ChatGPT moment,” where transformer models, real-time perception, a...
Samantha Town
Events and Outreach
To help launch Portland Startup Week, the Rose City Robotics Collaborative (RCR) hosted a community networking lunch in partnership with Electron Robotics. Held at the Metro Region Innovation Hub, the gathering welcomed members of the robotics community from across the Pacific Northwest for an af...
Samantha Town
Events and Outreach
When Joe Cole, PhD gave his talk last weekend to the Portland Area RoboTics Society (P.A.R.T.S.), it was an intimate gathering of passionate hackers in a local hackerspace, a place where real ideas spark and technical minds connect to build physical hardware. As co-founder and Chief Executive Of...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
A recap of our May 22 bootcamp with the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute This week, Rose City Robotics welcomed university students and faculty to the Metro Region Innovation Hub for a hands-on Generative AI bootcamp delivered in partnership with the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI). The after...
Samantha Town
Events and Outreach
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What does it look like when entrepreneurs, engineers, and researchers come together to experiment with real-world robotics? At Rose City Robotics, we brought that vision to life with our Robotics Lunch and Learn: Startup Edition—a hands-on technical workshop focused on the cutting edge of roboti...
Samantha Town
Events and Outreach
At Rose City Robotics, we are proud to join the celebration of National Robotics Week, happening April 5–13, 2025! This nationwide event highlights the power of robotics to inspire students, promote STEM education, and showcase the incredible innovations shaping our future. National Robotics Wee...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
I’m writing this from NVIDIA GTC 2025, reflecting on Jensen Huang’s keynote yesterday. As a Portland State University NVIDIA University Ambassador developing generative AI and robotics curriculum, I’m particularly interested in software advances continuing to be made by NVIDIA. With NVIDIA Infere...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
Despite the recent signs of weakness in the US economy, the data center business is booming. A combination of converging factors including AI, cloud computing and cryptocurrency have data center construction projects underway across the country. But with progress comes a challenge: what happens t...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
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At Rose City Robotics, we are committed to fostering a vibrant, grassroots community for robotics professionals in the Pacific Northwest. We are excited to announce that we will be hosting the Rose City edition of the Robotics Collaborative meetup on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, from 5:30 PM to 7:3...
Samantha Town
Events and Outreach
We are excited to announce our we are working with RealMan Robotics to develop educational content aimed at empowering the next generation of roboticists. This collaboration focuses on creating comprehensive tutorials and courses that leverage open-source robotics hardware and software. RealMan ...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
At Rose City Robotics, we are dedicated to providing top-tier educational opportunities in AI and robotics. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce our new certification training course designed to prepare participants for the NVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI Multimodal credential. What i...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
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
Operations / Business Development
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
Operations / Business Development
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 momen...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
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 tra...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
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
Operations / Business Development
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
Operations / Business Development
Rose City Robotics won the Demolicious pitch competition for September! Demolicious is hosted monthly in Portland Oregon, organized by Rick Turoczy and Upstart Collective's Josh Carter. Teams get just 3 minutes to pitch their idea with slides. Since its inception in 2008, Demolicious has served a...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
Electric vehicles (EVs) are taking over the automotive industry and as their powerful lithium-ion batteries begin to reach their end of life, the need for efficient recycling solutions for those batteries is becoming more and more critical. In addition to passenger vehicles, EVs are also taking o...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development