At Rose City Robotics, we believe ambition deserves the best tools — and that includes knowing where to find funding. If you’re leading or supporting a high school FRC robotics team, NASA’s Robotics Alliance Project (RAP) may be one of the most powerful resources you’re not yet using. Every year...
Duncan Miller
Operations / Business Development
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
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