Anthony Levandowski
Anthony Levandowski is an engineer and entrepreneur who serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of Pronto, an autonomous vehicle company for the mining and trucking industries that was acquired by Atoms. He is best known as a co-founder of Google's self-driving car program, which evolved into Waymo, and the autonomous trucking company Otto, which was sold to Uber. His recent work focuses on autonomous haulage systems for mining and construction sites.
“You basically take a kit, you apply, you install it onto a machine and that machine becomes autonomous. Some of these machines are like 20 years old. Some of them are new.”
Source→“Anthony Lewandowski who is one of my top leads on autonomy back at Uber was running Pronto, which was an autonomous mining company... I was the biggest investor in Pronto. I'm like, let's go. So, acquired Pronto and now I'm in the mining business”
Source→“We can go to a gold mine CEO right now and say, would you like to get 20% more gold per year? We don't get no... And in the autonomy world, it's about it's better than human productivity.”
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