Chris Urmson's Interviews
121. Let waypoints guide you, w/Aurora's Chris Urmson
To complete an audacious journey, you need to set short, achievable goals — or waypoints — to avoid getting wildly lost. But waypoints also need to be flexible because when you're knocked off track, you need to be able to realign your waypoints to get back on course. Aurora's Chris Urmson shares how he keeps returning
Rapid Response: When to build the company before the product, with Aurora CEO Chris Urmson
Chris Urmson has had to take a different approach in building his company Aurora, which develops self-driving technology. As opposed to creating and iterating a product with a handful of people, and then building a company around that product, Urmson says he’s had to do the opposite. “Given the scale of the problem we'
Chris Urmson on Aurora and the future of autonomous vehicles
In episode 18 of The Robot Brains Podcast our host Pieter Abbeel meets Chris Urmson. Chris is one of the world-leading pioneers in self-driving. He led the Google self-driving project for several years - which later became Waymo. Then, in 2017, he co-founded his own self-driving company, Aurora where he is currently th
Aurora CEO Chris Urmson on building the roadmap to fully autonomous vehicles | E1228
Chris Urmson the CEO of Aurora, a leading self-driving company, joins Jason to recount the history of autonomous vehicles (1:06), the roadmap for removing human drivers (16:47), what technology problems are left to solve (38:25) and more!
Chris Urmson, co-founder and CEO of the self-driving technology startup Aurora, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the state-of-play of self-driving technology, the criticisms the tech must address, and the huge challenges to be overcome before we trust a computer to drive our kids to school.
Why Building a Company is a Team Sport, With Chris Urmson of Aurora
Fifteen years into his career in the self-driving-vehicle industry, Chris Urmson has assembled a team of his own. His vision? To make our roads safer by building the world's driver. With a PhD from Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and experience developing Google's self-driving-car program, Chris partnered with his
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