Tommy Jr. autonomously follows Perrone Robotics' CEO Paul Perrone onto the stage during a keynote presentation to greet the father of Java technology, Sun Microsystems' James Gosling.

Here is a tour of Tommy Jr. from JavaOne.

Here's a video of one of Tommy Jr.'s Laser Measurement Systems on a gimbal, with some visualization of the data at the end. It's a good way of showing what Tommy Jr. can see.

We are developing an industrial version of the gimbal that will be much faster and more robust.

The Daily Progress talked with us extensively to give a nice overview of what we're up to recently, especially with respect to the DARPA Urban Challenge.

Perrone Robotics, which Perrone founded and heads, initially became involved with the 2005 Grand Challenge to see how rapidly it could build an autonomous ground vehicle with as little money as possible.

Perrone said some of the other teams spent $2 million to $3 million and invested hundreds of man years of software in their vehicles. Tommy Sr., on the other hand, cost about $60,000 and required 10 man months of software.

Cost-effectiveness is a large part of both Perrone Robotics' and Team Jefferson's platform. This year, even with more support from sponsors, Perrone said they have spent "one-one-hundredth" of what other teams have. Perrone estimated Team Jefferson has put about $150,000 into Tommy Jr.

PRI to provide talks and demos at JavaOne 2006 conference.

PRI LMS Toolkit extended for Bulk Measurement apps.

Team Jefferson wraps up at DARPA Grand Challenge events after both a successful and dramatic showing at the qualifying events.

Team Jefferson is one of 40 teams selected for participation in the DARPA Grand Challenge events out west.

DARPA selects Team Jefferson as one of 118 teams for a site visit based on video and application submissions.