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Draft:Duckietown

  • Comment: Most of the sources used for this article aren't independent of the corp or the researchers. That's fine to use in the article, but to get through AfC we want to see that there's enough independent coverage to justify a standalone article. Can you add anything more? asilvering (talk) 00:24, 27 July 2024 (UTC)


Duckietown, Inc.
Company typePrivate
Industry
Founded2020
Founders
  • Jacopo Tani
  • Andrea Censi
  • Liam Paull
Headquarters55 Court St., Floor 2,
Boston, Massachusetts
,
United States
Key people
  • Jacopo Tani (CEO)
  • Andrea F. Daniele (CTO)
Products
  • Duckiebots
  • Duckietown
  • Duckiedrones
Services
  • Classroom management
  • Course building
  • Talent matching
Websiteduckietown.com

Duckietown (Boston, Massachusetts)is a robotics and AI technology company.[1][2] who develops autonomous mobile robotics.[3][4] It is a spin-​​off of ETH Zurich, an academic organization, and originated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5][6]

History

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Duckietown started as a class at MIT in 2016[7][8] for the master students of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, as a hands-on learning experience with the goal to "create a fleet of fifty self-driving taxis that can navigate the roads of a model city with just a single on-board camera and no pre-programmed maps"[9] using off-the-shelf components and open-source software tools. A documentary (the "Duckumentary") was made from the first course.[10]

In 2018 the Duckietown platform seeded the first edition of the AI Driving Olympics[11][12][13][14]: an international competition for benchmarking the state of the art of embodied AI for self-driving cars.[15] The event was held at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NeurIPS).[16] Final events of following iterations of the AI-DO took place at NeurIPS and at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).[17]

In 2019 a Kickstarter was run to standardize the hardware component of the platform and make it available worldwide[18][19] to make the platform more accessible and support the early-growth of the community.[20][21] In the same year, Duckiebots[22] were featured in the Science Museum of London's "Driverless" exhibition. [23][24]

In 2020, the Duckietown platform was used in the "Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown" massive open online course (MOOC)[25], hosted on the EdX platform.[26]

Recognition

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In 2021 and 2022 the Duckietown platform was nominated as a finalist in the EdTech awards[27] in the following categories: higher education solution, robotics (for learning) solution, product or service setting a trend [28], and online courses / MOOCs solution [29]

References

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  1. ^ Paull, Liam; Tani, Jacopo; Ahn, Heejin; Alonso-Mora, Javier; Carlone, Luca; Cap, Michal; Chen, Yu Fan; Choi, Changhyun; Dusek, Jeff; Fang, Yajun; Hoehener, Daniel; Liu, Shih-Yuan; Novitzky, Michael; Okuyama, Igor Franzoni; Pazis, Jason (May 2017). "Duckietown: An open, inexpensive and flexible platform for autonomy education and research". 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). pp. 1497–1504. doi:10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989179. ISBN 978-1-5090-4633-1. S2CID 7910911.
  2. ^ "Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown". ethz.ch. Retrieved 2024-10-15.
  3. ^ Tani, Jacopo; Paull, Liam; Zuber, Maria T.; Rus, Daniela; How, Jonathan; Leonard, John; Censi, Andrea (2017). "Duckietown: An Innovative Way to Teach Autonomy". In Alimisis, Dimitris; Moro, Michele; Menegatti, Emanuele (eds.). Educational Robotics in the Makers Era. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Vol. 560. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 104–121. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55553-9_8. hdl:1721.1/111059. ISBN 978-3-319-55553-9. S2CID 7657201.
  4. ^ Tani, Jacopo; Daniele, Andrea F.; Bernasconi, Gianmarco; Camus, Amaury; Petrov, Aleksandar; Courchesne, Anthony; Mehta, Bhairav; Suri, Rohit; Zaluska, Tomasz; Walter, Matthew R.; Frazzoli, Emilio; Paull, Liam; Censi, Andrea (October 2020). "Integrated Benchmarking and Design for Reproducible and Accessible Evaluation of Robotic Agents". 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). pp. 6229–6236. arXiv:2009.04362. doi:10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341677. ISBN 978-1-7281-6212-6. S2CID 221337318.
  5. ^ "List of ETH spin-offs". ethz.ch. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
  6. ^ "Integrating big data into robotics with Duckietown". University of Nevada, Reno. Retrieved 2024-10-15.
  7. ^ Jan Kamps, Haje (April 20, 2016). "MIT explains self-driving cars with rubber duckies". Techcrunch. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  8. ^ Hiles, Catherine (April 21, 2016). "MIT Teaches Students About Autonomous Cars Using Rubber Ducks". The Newswheel. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
  9. ^ Conner-Simons, Adam (April 20, 2016). "Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  10. ^ Duckietown (2017-08-30). The Duckumentary - the first edition of Duckietown (at MIT, in 2016). Retrieved 2024-05-16 – via Vimeo.
  11. ^ "The Duckietown Foundation Announces the AI Driving Olympics (AI-DO)". PRWeb. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  12. ^ Walther, Michael (2018-11-09). "AI Behind the Wheel in Duckietown". Electrical Engineering News and Products. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  13. ^ svizzera, RSINews, l’informazione della Radiotelevisione (4 November 2018). "La gara dei mini-taxi autonomi". rsi (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-02-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Si scaldano i motori per le Olimpiadi delle auto autonome - Scienza & Tecnica". ANSA.it (in Italian). 2018-11-04. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  15. ^ "NeurIPS 2021". neurips.cc. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  16. ^ "Duckietown, le Olimpiadi della guida autonoma con le paperelle - VIDEO". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 2018-11-07. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  17. ^ Censi, Andrea; Paull, Liam; Tani, Jacopo; Walter, Matthew R. (2019). "The AI Driving Olympics: An Accessible Robot Learning Benchmark". 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), Vancouver, Canada. doi:10.3929/ethz-b-000464062 – via ETH Zurich Research Collection.
  18. ^ "Learn to Program Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown - auto-mat.ch". www.auto-mat.ch (in German). Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  19. ^ "Learn About Self-Driving Vehicles and AI with Duckietown". Hackster.io. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  20. ^ "Learn to Program Self-Driving Cars (and Help Duckies Commute) With Duckietown - IEEE Spectrum". spectrum.ieee.org. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  21. ^ Lobo, Savia (2018-08-22). "MIT's Duckietown project on Kickstarter for self-driving cars". Packt Hub. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  22. ^ "What is a Duckiebot?". GovTech. 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  23. ^ "The Science Museum explores a future driven by autonomous vehicles". Science Museum. 12 June 2019. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  24. ^ "Europe gets tougher on tech". Financial Times. 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  25. ^ "Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown". edX. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  26. ^ "ETHx: Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown". edX. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  27. ^ "The EdTech Awards". EdTech Digest. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  28. ^ "2021 Finalists & Winners". EdTech Digest. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  29. ^ "2022 Finalists & Winners". www.edtechdigest.com. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
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