Morgan Hill, CA (May 7, 2009)

Velodyne Lidar, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high definition lidar sensors, and GrayMatter Inc., a provider of integrated software and hardware solutions for autonomous motor vehicles, announced today that Velodyne will distribute the GrayMatter Visionary™ point cloud visualization software. Velodyne will include a trial version of Visionary with each shipment of a Velodyne HDL-64E S2 lidar sensor. (more…)

July 02, 2008 - GrayMatter Announces Preliminary Specifications for AVS™ Version 4.0

The most recent version of GrayMatter’s AVS™ control system for autonomous vehicles is in the final design stages. For the first time in its history, GrayMatter will use an outside manufacturing firm to produce the units that will be certified to the ISO 9000 standard. The new hardware will be smaller, lighter, and more efficient than the previous model. (more…)

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The Great Robot Race homepage

A year before the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, no one in the robotics world had heard of the Gray Insurance Company. And no one from Gray Insurance, including the company’s lead software developer Paul Trepagnier, knew anything about robotics. (more…)

“Robocars” World Premiere to Air on Monday
July 11, 2008 - GrayMatter’s very own Team Gray will be featured alongside ten other 2007 Urban Challenge teams in an upcoming special on the Discovery Science Channel. Tune in with us on Monday and watch ‘Plan B’ perform its nearly-flawless “site visit.” (more…)

05/06/2008
GrayMatter demonstrated the AVS™ at the European Automotive Testing Expo 2008 held in Stuttgart, Germany in conjunction with Stähle and their exhibition of the Ruggedized Autopilot system for autonomous vehicles. (more…)

Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap - Presentation

Source: SCIVESTOR

Summary: This presentation is being presented at RoboBusiness 2008. It highlights progress and challenges in the technologies necessary to facilitate civilian autonomous vehicles. We discuss a plausible technology driven autonomous vehicle roadmap from 2010 - 2030. (more…)

METAIRIE, LA - December 14, 2007 - GrayMatter Inc. would like to congratulate Team Gray, and their robot ‘Plan B,’ on their performance in the DARPA Urban Challenge’s National Qualifying Event(NQE). This accomplishment not only shows the engineering prowess and dedication (more…)

Declared a “Top 5″ Team by DARPA Director

ANAHEIM, CA - Thursday, August 9, 2007 - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today released the names of 36 teams from around the country that were selected as semifinalists in the 2007 Urban Challenge, a race for autonomous vehicles to be held in November of this year. Among those selected was Team Gray, a Metairie, Louisiana team made up of employees of GrayMatter, Inc. (more…)

Hosts Near-Perfect Site Visit - Expects Invitation to National Qualifying Event

Metairie, LA - Tuesday, July 3, 2007 - Personnel from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) were present on June 26 to judge the performance of Team Gray’s entry into the 2007 Urban Challenge, a competition designed to accelerate development of autonomous vehicles for use by the military. (more…)

May 31, 2007 - Work in preparation for the 2007 Urban Challenge continues at GrayMatter. Working in a real-time version of Java, new vehicle control software to further improve low speed tracking accuracy and facilitate higher-speed operation of the vehicle is nearing completion. (more…)