Purpose Built Robots offers technology consulting in a
variety of areas, including robots.

Low cost computing power, decreasing costs for manufacturing
small quantities of custom product, and increasing human labor
costs are forcing a trend towards increased automation in our
lives. Robots. We at Purpose Built Robots understand this future.

• Consulting, system architecting, technical management: keeping your project moving
  
• Design reviews: helping your projects succeed by killing bugs early
  
• Due dilligence for investment in technology companies, evaluating technical feasibility
  
• Legal: expert witness, legal testimony
• Proof of concept prototypes: rapid concept validation and software development mockups
  
• Safety of robot systems, independent safety reviews
  
• Ethical Design of AI and Autonomous Systems
  
• Security of robot systems, hacking robots, keeping robots from getting hacked
  
  • Encryption, authentication
  • Intrusion detection
  • code analysis, fuzz testing
• Embedded programming, embedded control: software that brings hardware to life
  
  • Artificial intelligence, deep learning, vision processing, openCV
  • classical control systems, sensor processing, state estimation
  • C, C++, Python, Lisp, Java, Lua, etc.
  • Linux, AVR, Arduino
  • Robot Operating System (ROS)
• Simulation, mixed simulation testing: concept illustration, physics validation, through production test.
  
  • Test your software before your hardware is built
  • Gazebo, Open Dynamics Engine ODE
  • Blender/Bullet Rigid Body Dynamics

Some of our areas of research:

• Emergence, self adaptive and self organizing systems
  
• Agricultural robots, automated beehives, nano/micro robotic organic gardening in the home
  
• Autonomous powered paragliders, parafoils, autonomous launch and collapse recovery
  
• Perception in optical flow
  
• Suspended robot systems, cable gantries
  
• Extreme wheeled and tracked mobility
  
• Minimum sensor configuration, localized sensor processing