The company's flagship product - ERSP® - is a software development platform designed to provide core infrastructure for robotic application development projects. This core infrastructure along with key robotic functionality including computer vision, navigation and path planning, and human-robot interaction, enables companies to focus on creative product development using state-of-the-art tools.

Evolution Robotics develops superior visual pattern recognition and autonomous navigation technologies that can be easily integrated into robotic and intelligent devices. The company's ViPR® technology (visual pattern recognition) is exceptional for its robust and reliable capabilities while working with very low-cost cameras like those found in standard web cams and the latest cell phones. Evolution Robotics ViPR technology can be used to produce a broad range of functional and marketable consumer products.

In addition, Evolution Robotics offers two technologies that give products the ability to be autonomous in unstructured, dynamic environments.

• vSLAM® - the first-ever simultaneous localization and mapping technology that provides true, robust navigation with a software and single-sensor solution. vSLAM can be used in large or small environments, indoors and out, and is based on the company's ViPR technology.
• NorthStar® - a low-cost, indoor localization solution that combines a small sensor, processor and IR projector, providing accurate location information in real-time.

Evolution Robotics products and services are used by over 65 organizations and companies worldwide. Many of today's top research institutions and universities also utilize the company's technologies for their own R&D efforts, as well as for instructional use, including Caltech, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, University of Tokyo and University of Hong Kong.

Evolution Robotics works closely with OEMs to identify compelling product ideas and bring them to life. Sony Corporation's Entertainment Robot Company was the first to integrate Evolution Robotics' ViPR technology into a commercial product - the Sony AIBO robotic dog. Evolution Robotics collaborated with Sony engineers to optimize the performance of the technology to run on a very low-cost processor.

Evolution Robotics has formed a subsidiary, Evolution Robotics Retail, Inc. On January 13, 2006, Evolution Robotics, Inc. announced that it had formed a wholly-owned subsidiary, named Evolution Robotics Retail, Inc., to focus exclusively on bringing object recognition-based solutions to the retail industry. Evolution Robotics Retail's primary product is LaneHawk™, a revolutionary bottom-of-basket loss prevention solution for retail that is based on Evolution Robotics' award-winning visual pattern recognition (ViPR) technology. To learn more, visit www.evoretail.com.

Through a broad range of consulting, engineering services and training, Evolution Robotics helps its partners produce better products, reduce risk and improve competitiveness. The company offers expertise, resources, and system design guidance, and is dedicated to customizing its technologies to accommodate various development platforms. Evolution Robotics blends the best minds from the scientific community, and consumer electronics and software design firms to provide valuable insights and ideas on how to implement breakthrough technologies today. From product conceptualization and spec development to prototypes, the team transforms functionality into capability to deliver well-designed and robust products.

The latest addition to the Evolution Robotics product line is NorthStar®. NorthStar is the latest addition to a line of technologies from Evolution Robotics that gives products the ability to intelligently navigate in an environment with purpose, instead of randomly as most of today's autonomous products do. For example, a robotic vacuum using NorthStar can be told to go to an exact location to clean and when finished, return to a base-station.

Its President/CTO, Dr. Paolo Pirjanian, was recently awarded the IEEE Robotics and Automation Award for early-career contributions to the field. Evolution Robotics technologies, coupled with their extensive range of professional services and engineering talent, is poised to be a leading player in the emerging field of consumer service robotics.

With offices headquartered in the US and regional offices in Düsseldorf and Tokyo, the company has grown substantially since its launch in February 2002. Evolution Robotics continues to invest in R&D as well as professional services, to produce new breakthroughs in technology, and amazing products with customers. The company has over two-dozen pending patents filed.

Evolution Robotics is an operating company of Idealab, a privately-held creator and operator of technology businesses.

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