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Technology Stocks : KVH Industries, Inc.
KVHI 5.520-2.1%Nov 7 9:30 AM EST
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From: 23 skidoo2/20/2019 12:38:25 PM
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Chris Urmson is co-founder and CEO of Aurora, a company that is working on self-driving technologies. He led Google’s self-driving car project before it became Waymo and is one of the preeminent leaders in the self-driving cars space. In the March 29, 2018 issue of The Atlantic magazine (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/the-man-with-the-most-valuable-work-experience-in-the-world/556772/) Urmson tells the interviewer that the key strategic difference between Aurora and Google/Waymo is in getting "to the last 10 percent, the last 1 percent, the last 0.001 percent."
In broad strokes in the self-driving cars space isn't that what KVH is aiming for with its new Photonic Gyro IMU? I don't know if KVH has a relationship with Urmson but I wouldn't be surprised if they do. KVH has a longtime relationship with Red Whittaker, founder and director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Field Robotics Center. Urmson was the technical lead of Whittaker's Carnegie Mellon teams that competed in the three robot-car challenges staged by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). KVH's FOGs were used by Carnegie Mellon in the robot-car challenges.
A 2008 photo on the Carnegie Mellon site shows Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos visiting Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh and talking with Whittaker and Urmson. Fast forward to earlier this month when Aurora was the recipient of $530 million in Series B funding. Amazon was a significant investor in that round of funding.
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