Audience Favorite Winner!21st Annual Bend Venture Conference Finals  

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Audience Favorite Award Winner at the 21st Annual Bend Venture Conference

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 impressive finalists pitched their innovative ideas and business models over two days to hundreds of people, including angel investors, venture capitalists and startup founders. It was an incredible experience being among such visionary companies and investors, each one contributing to the vibrant entrepreneurial landscape here in Oregon.

Duncan Miller

Co-founder / CEO

Using Transformer Neural Networks for Robot Motion Planning with Visual Feedback

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 whole thing as a unit. They demonstrated that using this technique in robotics can significantly improve autonomous task performance because it reduces the opportunity for motion errors to compound over time. What follows is a description of the network architecture used for ACT.

Joseph Cole

Co-founder / CTO

Rose City Robotics Wins Audience Favorite Award and Advances to Finals at Bend Venture Conference

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, BVC has served as a pillar of Oregon’s robust entrepreneurial culture, playing a pivotal role in evolving and growing the startup ecosystem across the Pacific Northwest. Throughout the conference, attendees hear company pitches, participate in multiple networking activities and listen to inspiring presenters from across the United States.

Duncan Miller

Co-founder / CEO

Rose City Robotics Wins Demolicious

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 as Portland’s premier launchpad for groundbreaking ideas.

Duncan Miller

Co-founder / CEO