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Duckietown Inc.

Duckietown Inc., founded in 2020, is a robotics and AI technology education company located in Cambridge, MA, USA.[1] Duckietown develops and maintains the Duckietown platform.[2][3]

History

The Duckietown platform initiated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016 [4][5]as a graduate class and research project.[6][7]

The original objective was to build a fleet of 50 self-driving taxis with rubber duckie[8] passengers that can navigate a model city's streets using just one on-board camera and no pre-loaded maps.[9][10][11][12]

In 2018, the Duckietown platform seeded the first edition of the AI Driving Olympics.[13][14]

In 2019, a Kickstarter was run to standardize the hardware component of the Duckietown platform.[15]It was also featured in the Science Museum of London's Driverless exhibition in this same year,[16] and in 2023 Duckietown objects accessioned to the museum’s permanent collection.[17]

In 2020, Duckietown releases the first edition of the “Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown” massive open online course [17] to provide an accessible, scalable, flexible, and duckie-filled introduction to robotics and AI through autonomous vehicles.[18][19]

References

  1. ↑ "Corporate Division, Commonwealth of Massachusetts".
  2. ↑ Paull, Liam; Tani, Jacopo; Ahn, Heejin; Alonso-Mora, Javier; Carlone, Luca; Cap, Michal; Chen, Yu Fan; Choi, Changhyun; Dusek, Jeff; Fang, Yajun; Hoehener, Daniel. "Duckietown: An open, inexpensive and flexible platform for autonomy education and research". Duckietown: An open, inexpensive and flexible platform for autonomy education and research.
  3. ↑ "The AI Driving Olympics at NeurIPS 2018".
  4. ↑ Nuttall, Chris (2019-10-07). "Europe gets tougher on tech". Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/a20f286c-e921-11e9-a240-3b065ef5fc55. Retrieved 2023-09-07. 
  5. ↑ Lobo, Savia (2018-08-22). "MIT's Duckietown project on Kickstarter for self-driving cars". Packt Hub. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  6. ↑ Tani, Jacopo; Paull, Liam; Zuber, Maria T.; Rus, Daniela; How, Jonathan; Leonard, John; Censi, Andrea (2017). Alimisis, Dimitris; Moro, Michele; Menegatti, Emanuele (eds.). "Duckietown: An Innovative Way to Teach Autonomy". Educational Robotics in the Makers Era. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Cham: Springer International Publishing: 104–121. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55553-9_8. ISBN 978-3-319-55553-9.
  7. ↑ "What is a Duckiebot?". GovTech. 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  8. ↑ Griggs, Mary Beth (2016-04-20). "Meet The Self-Driving Rubber Duckie Taxis Of Duckietown". Popular Science. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  9. ↑ Lavallee-Koenig, Ashley (2023-06-06). "What we saw and heard at Upper Bound". Taproot Edmonton. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  10. ↑ "Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2016-04-20. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  11. ↑ Kamps, Haje Jan (2016-04-20). "MIT explains self-driving cars with rubber duckies". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  12. ↑ "Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown". edX. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  13. ↑ Censi, Andrea; Paull, Liam; Tani, Jacopo; Walter, Matthew R. (2019). "The AI Driving Olympics: An Accessible Robot Learning Benchmark". doi:10.3929/ethz-b-000464062. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. ↑ Tani, Jacopo; Daniele, Andrea F.; Bernasconi, Gianmarco; Camus, Amaury; Petrov, Aleksandar; Courchesne, Anthony; Mehta, Bhairav; Suri, Rohit; Zaluska, Tomasz; Walter, Matthew R.; Frazzoli, Emilio (2020-10). "Integrated Benchmarking and Design for Reproducible and Accessible Evaluation of Robotic Agents". 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): 6229–6236. doi:10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341677. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ↑ "Learn to Program Self-Driving Cars (and Help Duckies Commute) With Duckietown - IEEE Spectrum". spectrum.ieee.org. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  16. ↑ "The Science Museum explores a future driven by autonomous vehicles | Science Museum". www.sciencemuseum.org.uk. 2019-06-12. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  17. ↑ "Search our collection | Science Museum Group Collection". collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  18. ↑ "Integrating big data into robotics with Duckietown". University of Nevada, Reno. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  19. ↑ "AI Driving Olympics - A Duckietown Challenge". www.i-programmer.info. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
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