The whine of a power tool somewhere within Velodyne’s new, half-empty San Jose factory nearly drowns out David Hall’s voice. Photo by Lea Suzuki/ The San Francisco Chronicle Ran on: 09-12-2005 David Hall of Velodyne, with his brother, Bruce, in Morgan Hill, show the robotic Toyota Tundra they're planning to run next month in the Darpa desert race. Think of them as the Wright Brothers of robotics (get a high tech portrait of the two along with shots of their factory).Photo taken on 8/8/05 in paloalto and morgan hill, CA.
They will compete with the big university-industry teams. Shoot 3 2pm.David and Bruce Hall are brothers who run a sub-woofer (stereo speaker) factory. We will shoot him at 10 am with the car for A1, and then proceed with him to the nearby Volkswagen robotics lab for a separate shot that will go on the business cover. barstow&sn=002&sc=564 barstow&sn=001&sc=1000 ABOUT TODAY"S SHOOTS 1 & 2 10 am.Sebastian Thrun is the Stanford professor behind Stanley the robotic volkswagen. If you want to learn more about this race, below are two links, one to the pre-race and the second to the post-race stories that were run last year. What would happen? Wacky inventors would come out of the woodwork with incredible machines to try and win. What if the defense department offered a $2 million prize to the first robotic vehicle to travel a 110 mile desert course - without human intervention.
Michael Macor/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 7 of7 robotracexx2_222_suzuki.jpg From left: David Hall Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer of Velodyne and Bruce Hall, Velodyne President, with their vehicle which will compete in the race. Velodyne is the leading developer of Lidar Sensors Autonomous Cars, Safety, & Mapping. Michael Macor/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 6 of7 Thien Dao on the production line in the factory at the headquarters of Velodyne in San Jose, Ca., on Tues. Michael Macor/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 5 of7 Frelen Santiago puts a sensor through the final testing phase at the headquarters of Velodyne in San Jose, Ca., on Tues. KURT ROGERS/THE CHRONICLE KURT ROGERS/SFC Show More Show Less 4 of7 David Hall, founder and Chief Executive Officer, at the headquarters of Velodyne in San Jose, Ca., on Tues. The contestants are college teams, hobbysists and dreamers who want to build robotic cars. Darpa - the defense department research agency that sponsored the early Internet. Michael Macor/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of7 Early morning programming team DAD from Morgan Hill Ca David and Bruce Hall work on the computer that controlls the robot.
Michael Macor/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of7 John Eggert, displays a Velodyne sensor on a test vehicle in front of the headquarters of Velodyne in San Jose, Ca., on Tues. 1 of7 Working along the production line inside the factory at the headquarters of Velodyne in San Jose, Ca., on Tues.
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