07.13.2009 RoboSight 1.2.1 Available The firmware, source documentation, source, and host binaries are now available for release 1.2.1.
See our downloads page for files and packages.
Release Notes:
RoboSight firmware now accepts baud rate configuration.
Example firmware application demonstrating how to extend the RoboSight functionality.
Added more functionality to libRoboSight.
Provided host example programs simple_searcher and simple_nav to search trained objects in the video stream and navigate a robot, respectively.
Added the rsFwDownloader application to download new firmware from a host computer to the RoboSight.
11.16.2008 G. Paillet Speaks at RoboDevelopment Guy Paillet of General Vision is a key note speaker at the 2008 RoboDevelopment Conference in Santa Clara on November 18th. He is highlighting RoboSight by RoadNarrows Intelligent Systems as a robotic smart camera for education and research applications.
Guy Paillet has been researching and developing artificial vision systems for the past 30 years. In 1982 his French company Data Sud Systems commercialized a unique vision system on a VME Bus. This lead him to the research of artificial neural networks. In 1993, Guy brought the concept of a fully hardwired neural network to IBM France as an independent inventor. He co-developed ZISC36 (Zero Instruction Set Computer with 36 neurons) for which five core patents were granted and co-owned by IBM Corp. Guy subsequently joined General Vision and began work on non-software solutions for emulating biological vision. In January 2008, with the help of their financial partner Cognimem Ltd, General Vision and Recognetics of China commercially released CM1K, the Cognimem chip with 1024 neurons that can be trained for pattern recognition.