RoadNarrows News Archive
Since 2002 RoadNarrows, LLC has been a leading provider of educational and research robotics solutions. If you desire to remain informed as to RoadNarrows press releases and product announcements, we encourage you to join our News Letter, a relatively light, two to four emails per year letter.
The RoadNarrows News Archive stores the company news articles, press releases, and announcements on-line for public access. The first published news articles are from 2005. The articles are reference by year, and in reverse chronological order within a year. Of course site-wide searches are supported.
Company History at a Glance
2002
- RoadNarrows is founded
- Signs K-Team distribution agreement
- Attends IEEE IROS 2002 at EPFL Lausanne
- Attends ROBO 02 Boulder
- Develops XML CogSci software
2003
- Founders invest significant seed money
- Attends IEEE IROS 2003 Las Vegas
- Exhibits technical multimedia art at Loveland Art Museum
- Signs Cyberbotics distribution agreement
2004
- Represents K-Team at AAAI Spring Symposium Stanford
- Attends RoboOlympics San Francisco
- Exhibits with K-Team at RoboNexus Santa Clara
- Grows international network
- Establishes North American sales processes
- Expands distribution partnerships with educational robotics companies
- First sales to international customers
- Hires first employees
- Manufactures open-source electronics OrcBoard for MIT MASLab
- Robin Knight presents to Northern Colorado Investors
- GCTronics releases the Epuck and RoadNarrows signs distribution agreement
- RoadNarrows moves downtown
- Receives SBIR/STTR NSF Phase I Grant for walking robots with SIUE
- Cooperative agreement with General Vision for CogniMem products
- Signs distribution agreement with CoroWare Inc
- Founds RoadNarrows Intelligent Systems for RoboSight™ product line
- Establishes international distributors for RoadNarrows' products
- Becomes Value Added Reseller for Gumstix, Inc Computer-On-Module products
- Receives business grant from City of Loveland
- Moves to 3000 sq ft downtown facility
- Is awarded Phase II NSF SBIR/STTR grant for legged robots
- Sells first SkewlZone products from NSF grant
- Establishes agreement with Skybotix to sell CoaX UAV's
- Establishes European sales and marketing representation
- Adds RoboRealm distribution agreement and collaboration
- Contracts with Boulder startup Orbotix on Sphero(TM) prototype
- Works with CU Boulder on ROS-enabled PrairieDog robot
- Begins Hekateros robotic smart manipulator development
- Acquires digital prototyping capability with in-house 3D printer and CNC router
- Works with medical device company to develop, prototype hand-held smart vision device
- Releases Graboid gripper product
- Releases Kinect-capable wheeled CoroBot robot
- Works with General Vision Asia-Pacific and Fukuoka Institute of Technology on embedded Neural Network product
- Celebrates 10 year anniversary and facility expansion
- Releases RoadNarrows Camera Pack