Archived News
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:
11.17.2008 Pitotech Demonstrates RoboSight
Pitotech of Taiwan is demonstrating RoboSight™ by RoadNarrows Intelligent Systems at the 2008 CACS International Automatic Control Conference on November 22 and 23rd.
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.
11.10.2008 RoboSight Goes Into Production
RoadNarrows Intelligent Systems (RNIS) has released their first product, RoboSight™. It is available for purchase from Pitotech, Taiwan, and RoadNarrows LLC, Colorado. It is currently available in two configurations: RoboSight Standard for educational and research robotics, and RoboSight Basic for prototyping and hobbyists.
RoboSight offers an affordable, but powerful vision recognition system, ideal for robotic platforms and small embedded applications. It is powered by the CogniMem CM-1K neural network chip co-developed by Recognetics and General Vision. Complex visual objects are readily detected and categorized from patterns previously trained by the user or the embedding system. The recognized visual categories can then be fed to the higher-level functions of the controlling system to guide goal decisions, object localization, platform movement and navigation, and environment manipulation.
09.24.2008 RNIS Presents at NCRVC
Paul Musson, interim CEO of RoadNarrows Intelligent Systems (RNIS), presented the company as an entrepreneur presenter at the Northern Colorado Rockies Venture Club. In addition, RNIS engineers Ian Bernstein, Doug Webster, and David Hygh demonstrated a prototype of the RoboSight camera for robotics during the Innovation Showcase portion of the event.
09.15.2008 Ian Bernstein Speaks at NoCoEntre
Ian Bernstein presented the startup company RoadNarrows Intelligent Systems at the Northern Colorado Entrepreneurs Network meetup. Ian is a co-founder of the company and is studying Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University.
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.
- Updated the on-line source documentation.
- Updated the RoboSight DataSheet and User's Guide.
- Fixed various minor bugs.
11.17.2008 Pitotech Demonstrates RoboSight
Pitotech of Taiwan is demonstrating RoboSight™ by RoadNarrows Intelligent Systems at the 2008 CACS International Automatic Control Conference on November 22 and 23rd.
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.
11.10.2008 RoboSight Goes Into Production
RoadNarrows Intelligent Systems (RNIS) has released their first product, RoboSight™. It is available for purchase from Pitotech, Taiwan, and RoadNarrows LLC, Colorado. It is currently available in two configurations: RoboSight Standard for educational and research robotics, and RoboSight Basic for prototyping and hobbyists.
RoboSight offers an affordable, but powerful vision recognition system, ideal for robotic platforms and small embedded applications. It is powered by the CogniMem CM-1K neural network chip co-developed by Recognetics and General Vision. Complex visual objects are readily detected and categorized from patterns previously trained by the user or the embedding system. The recognized visual categories can then be fed to the higher-level functions of the controlling system to guide goal decisions, object localization, platform movement and navigation, and environment manipulation.
09.24.2008 RNIS Presents at NCRVC
Paul Musson, interim CEO of RoadNarrows Intelligent Systems (RNIS), presented the company as an entrepreneur presenter at the Northern Colorado Rockies Venture Club. In addition, RNIS engineers Ian Bernstein, Doug Webster, and David Hygh demonstrated a prototype of the RoboSight camera for robotics during the Innovation Showcase portion of the event.
09.15.2008 Ian Bernstein Speaks at NoCoEntre
Ian Bernstein presented the startup company RoadNarrows Intelligent Systems at the Northern Colorado Entrepreneurs Network meetup. Ian is a co-founder of the company and is studying Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University.