Perrone Robotics Funding & Investors

Perrone Robotics is a robotics software company based out of Crozet, Virginia and formed in 2001. The company formed [https://web.archive.org/web/20071111021422/http://www.teamjefferson.com/ Team Jefferson] as a low budget side project in 2004 to build an autonomous robotic dune buggy for participation in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. The company was at the [http://www.sun.com/2006-0523/feature/index.jsp 2006 JavaOne conference] with their robotic dune buggy [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/team-07.html 'Tommy'] and received a [http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-05/sunflash.20060515.2.xml Duke Award] in the emerging technology category for Tommy & MAX.