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
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
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
Learning and Impact
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
Learning and Impact
As a robotics integrator, we focus on using machine learning to enhance automation hardware. Our focus on sensor systems for capturing training data and neural networks for imitation learning allows us to enable robots to autonomously perform tasks that are difficult or impossible to automate wit...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
In traditional automation and robotics, the tasks performed by machines must be rigidly prescriptive, structured, and well-defined. Movements are mapped to precise locations, operations are ordered in sequences and a script lists the actions, parameters and repeated processes. This works well for...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
Join us on Sunday May 5th for a presentation by Rose City Robotics Founder and CEO Joseph Cole, PhD on Mobile ALOHA, the open source robotics hardware developed by Stanford University. The presentation will be given as the main talk for the Portland Area RoboTics Society (P.A.R.T.S) monthly meeti...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
In July of 2021 the pacific northwest endured a record setting heat wave with temperatures in Portland reaching 116F on July 28th. The 116 temperature broke the previous day's record-setting high of 112 degrees. The previous day's high had broken the 108 degree-record set the day prior, which bro...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
Obtaining a credential from the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) can be a significant career milestone. Specifically, the NABCEP PV Associate Credential is designed for those looking to prove their knowledge in the principles of the application, design, installation...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
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