In the January 2007 cover story of Scientific American Bill Gates compares the nascent PC industry of 30 years ago to the robotics industry today.  Austin Robot Technology recognizes the potential of the robotics industry for explosive growth.  At A.R.T. we are using state-of-the-art sensors and developing innovative vision techniques running on the highly parallel graphics processing units (GPUs) of today's high-end PCs.  We are partnering with University of Texas Professor Peter Stone, the 2007 recipient of the prestigious IJCAI Computers and Thought Award .  Professor Stone brings extensive expertise on high-level robotics and AI control algorithms as well as extensive experience deploying successful software in multi-agent competition scenarios. 

For the full analysis by Bill Gates see the January 2007 issue of Scientic American, or read online.