Ag Robot & Automation
United States
Gary Bradski (PhD) is Chief Science Officer at Bonsai Robotics. He is founder & Chairman of OpenCV.org (400M downloads in 2025), was a consulting Professor at Stanford CS (2006-2012). He led the vision team for Stanley (the robot car that won the DARPA Grand Challenge, now in the Smithsonian Museum – Stanley became Waymo). He was on the founding team at 5 Startups with exits to Google, Microsoft, Matterport and Stryker. He sits on several boards and advisorships and is an active angel investor, most recent exit (Lambda Labs 2025 2nd market in $2.5B D round, where he was the first investor). Gary was first investor and is on the board of Space-ng that did the nav system for Blue Ghost, the first successful commercial lunar lander (Gary’s name is on its team plaque on the moon). He has won 2014 IEEE PAMI prize for contributions to the field of computer vision and won in 2021 the ICCV Helmholtz Prize Test of Time Award for his “ORB” paper. 77 Publications, 138 Patents.
Tue 21
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Waite Hall - Stage 1
Speakers
Jesaelen Moraes Sr. Agronomist Blue River Technology
David Silver Director Orchard Autonomy John Deere
Gary Bradski Chief Science Officer Bonsai Robotics
Chris Padwick Director of Computer Vision Machine Learning Blue River Technology
Adam Barlow Manager, Technology Standards & Regulatory Affairs John Deere