Perrone Robotics

Perrone Robotics is a robotics software company based out of Charlottesville, Virginia and formed in 2001. The company formed <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071111021422/http://www.teamjefferson.com/">Team Jefferson</a> as a low budget side project in 2004 to build an autonomous robotic dune buggy for participation in the 2005 <a href="/facts/DARPA_Grand_Challenge/qfSRSYBa">DARPA Grand Challenge</a>. The company was at the <a href="http://www.sun.com/2006-0523/feature/index.jsp">2006 JavaOne conference</a> with their robotic dune buggy <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/team-07.html">'Tommy'</a> and received a <a href="http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-05/sunflash.20060515.2.xml">Duke Award</a> in the emerging technology category for Tommy & MAX. 
The company has reformed Team Jefferson to participate in the <a href="/facts/DARPA_Grand_Challenge/qfSRSYBa">2007 DARPA Urban Challenge</a> with partners such as <a href="http://www.fairisaac.com/Fairisaac/News/Press+Releases/Fair+Isaac+Decision+Management+Technology+to+Help+Navigate+Unmanned+Vehicle+in+2007+DARPA+Grand+Chal.htm">Fair-Isaac Corporation</a>, <a href="/facts/Sun_Microsystems/VJ9EzEFd">Sun Microsystems</a>, and the <a href="/facts/University_of_Virginia/SPNDITbg">University of Virginia</a>.
The CEO spoke at the <a href="/facts/Consumer_Electronics_Show/JUmN49Fl">Consumer Electronics Show</a> (CES) 2007 in Las Vegas describing the emerging consumer robotics market and how to 'roboticize' consumer products <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061001053954/http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/conferences/search/session_detail.asp?ID_session=R4">[1]</a>.

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