Anthony Levandowski
I am the Co-Founder and CEO of Pronto, an autonomous vehicle company for the mining and trucking industries. In February of 2022, I founded Pollen Mobile, a decentralized mobile network built on the Solana blockchain, which was initially born out of the need for secure and reliable connectivity in remote operating sites. In 2016, I co-founded Otto, an autonomous trucking company. Prior to Otto, I co-founded the Google self-driving car program (now known as Waymo.) I have built and sold five companies including 510 Systems, a mobile mapping start-up that experimented with LiDAR technology, Anthony’s Robots, where I created the Pribot, a self-driving Toyota Prius that was the world’s first self-driving car to drive on public roads, and Otto, which retrofitted tractor-trailers with self-driving technology. In 2004, I helped build Ghostrider, the world's first autonomous motorcycle for the DARPA Grand Challenge – now residing in the Smithsonian.
Projects
- 2015 Google Cardboard
- 2014 Google Telepresence
- 2011 Mapping System IP-S2
- 2009 Google Project Chauffeur
- 2008 Pribot
- 2007 Google Project Ground Truth
- 2007 Google Oblique Aerial Imagery
- 2007 Google Street View
- 2007 VuTool
- 2004 Ghostrider - DARPA Grand Challenge
- 2003 WorkTop 650
- 2001 BillSortBot
Companies
- 2022- Pollen – Founder & CEO
- 2018- Pronto – Co-founder & CEO
- 2016-2017 Uber – VP of Engineering: Head of ATG
- 2016-2016 Otto – Co-founder – Acquired by Uber in 2016
- 2007-2016 Google – Software Engineer
- 2008-2011 Anthony's Robots – Founder – Acquired by Google in 2011
- 2001-2007 510 Systems – Founder – Acquired by Google in 2011
- 2000-2007 La Raison – Founder
Archives
- 2019 FreightWaves, Autonomous vehicles on the level
- 2019 TechCrunch, Fireside Chat with Anthony Levandowski
- 2019 Electrek, Pronto’s Anthony Levandowski on new autonomous venture, rep and redemption
- 2018 The Guardian, Self-driving car drove me from California to New York, claims ex-Uber engineer
- 2018 IEEE, GhostRider: The Self-Driving Motorbike That Launched Anthony Levandowski
- 2017 Verge, Otto co-founder on the promise of self-driving trucks
- 2014 IEEE, The Unknown Start-up That Built Google's First Self-Driving Car
- 2013 The New Yorker, Auto Correct – Has the self-driving car at last arrived?
- 2013 ATA's Executive Summit, Anthony Levandowski Talks About the Google Driverless Car Project At ATA's Executive Summit
- 2013 UC Berkeley Distinguised Innovator Series, Anthony Levandowski, Project Lead for Google Driverless Cars
- 2006 Nova - Balancing Act, The Great Robot Race
Patents
- 2019-08-20 Destination changes in autonomous vehicles (US20200049517A1)
- 2019-07-15 System and method for determining a vehicle's autonomous driving mode from a plurality of autonomous modes (US20200019165A1)
- 2019-07-12 Systems and methods for autonomous object detection and vehicle following (WO2020014683A1)
- 2017-05-25 Coordinating on-demand transportation with autonomous vehicles (US20180342035A1)
- 2017-05-25 Deploying human-driven vehicles for autonomous vehicle routing and localization map updating (US20180342165A1)
- 2017-05-16 Self-Driving Delivery of Optionally-Driven Vehicles (US20180335783A1)
- 2017-05-09 Destination changes in autonomous vehicles (US10495471B2)
- 2016-06-15 Method for maintaining active control of an autonomous vehicle (US9582003B1)
- 2016-03-03 Intersection phase map (US9779621B1)
- 2015-04-06 Long range steerable LIDAR system (US9880263B2)
- 2015-03-25 Vehicle with multiple light detection and ranging devices (US9625582B2)
- 2013-08-20 Devices and methods for a rotating LIDAR platform with a shared transmit/receive path (US8836922B1)
- 2013-03-04 Dynamic measurements of pulse peak value (US9304154B1)
- 2012-11-15 Leveraging of behavior of vehicles to detect likely presence of an emergency vehicle (US8849557B1)
- 2012-03-26 Robust method for detecting traffic signals and their associated states (US9145140B2)
- 2011-08-26 Systems and methods for vehicles with limited destination ability (US8688306B1)
- 2011-01-21 Traffic light detecting system and method (US20150179088A1)
- 2002-04-12 Remote collaborative control and direction (US7937285B2)