Wave Glider image courtesy of Liquid Robotics 71 percent of our Earth's surface is water. Wave Glider Technology and the data it provides can offer us a glimpse into the vast untamed aquatic landscape. Come learn about the autonomous drones capable of withstanding tidal turbulence, inclement weather, unforeseen interactions with various living and [...]
Attendees of VLAB’s Drone Swarms: The Buzz of the Future event will experience the invasion themselves on Stanford’s campus. Liquid Robotic SV3 Wave Gliders on their way to launch A massive change is taking place in the industry with commercial applications of drone swarms. These groups of mostly autonomous, robotic devices are [...]
James Gosling, the father of the Java Programming language, will be sitting in the featured startup seat during the Drone Swarms: The Buzz of the Future event next week. With a long history developing some of the most significant advances in computer science, Gosling has a reputation as a technology innovator. Since 2011, Gosling's efforts have [...]
Dr. Timothy H. Chung We are very excited to have Dr. Timothy H. Chung joining us as the moderator for Drone Swarms: The Buzz of the Future. Chung is an assistant professor of systems engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California. As the deputy director of the Consortium for Robotics and [...]
OK, so you've seen drones flying in parks or at the beach, heard news stories about the drone that crashed into the stands at the U.S. Open tennis match, or even consumers that inadvertently interfere with wildfire emergency response. Flown by remote control or using a smartphone for control, these consumer drones are distant cousins [...]
Rob LeClerc, Founder of AgFunder Dr. Rob Leclerc is the cofounder of AgFunder, the premier online marketplace connecting accredited investors with quality Ag related companies from around the globe in this $6.4 Trillion industry. According to Leclerc, investment in AgTech was relatively flat before 2013. Innovation in agriculture was concentrated in seed and [...]
SeedStar technology at work. Image courtesy of John Deere Over the next 35 years, the world population is expected to increase by nearly one-third — more than 2 billion people. Providing enough food for these folks, with about the same amount of land and probably less water, is a huge challenge that needs [...]
VLAB is pleased to welcome Lance Donny, Founder and CEO of OnFarm Systems, to our stage on Sept. 15. Donny grew up on a farm in California where his family grew table grapes. After college, he spent 20 years in software before coming back to AgTech. After realizing that many farmers were having a hard [...]
We are pleased to welcome Brook Porter from Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers to the panel for our upcoming event, AgTech: Sand Hill Bets on Precision Agriculture. As a partner in KPCB’s Green Growth Fund, Porter supports young companies that are creating sustainable solutions by developing disruptive technology. Porter’s knowledge of environmental technology will provide [...]
image courtesy Silicon Valley Business Journal We are pleased to have Jorge Heraud, CEO of Blue River Technology, as a panelist for our first event of the season. Join us on September 15 for AgTech: Sandhill Bets on Precision Agriculture. Blue River has a great story that you won’t want to miss and registration [...]