That's how we found the deal, but this is the inventor and Brains behind Cyberworks. Vivek Burhanpurkar. It's a good thing John was the CFO which means he has already been through the books at Cyberworks and they were a clean company worth merging with.
Vivek Burhanpurkar President.
Mr. Burhanpurkar graduated in electrical engineering at the University of Toronto. While there, he wrote one of the world’s first thesis papers on autonomous robot navigation theory, under the former Chairman of the faculty, Prof. K.C. Smith. He has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers in international journals. He has been a keynote speaker at the American Association of Artificial Intelligence Annual Convention, a session Co-chair at the U.S. Department of Defense Conferences on Autonomous Warfare, a Peer Reviewer and Session Chair at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers “Fifth World Conference on Robotics Research”, and a winner of numerous awards, such as the International CES Innovation Award.
He founded Cyberworks in 1982, while still at university, and led a team to develop the world’s first autonomous robot with SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) in 1984. As early as 1987, he was among the first to publish a series of papers on the topic in peer-reviewed journals. He systematically built Cyberworks into a world leader in robotics research and manufacturing, with worldwide sales and strategic partnerships with academia, NASA, and several multinational corporations. He served as Managing Director of CRS Robotics, a TSX- listed multinational robotics company with over 200 fulltime staff and, within six months of joining the company, expanded its market presence across Asia Mr. Burhanpurkar has been the subject of over 200 feature articles in major publications, including the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Financial Times, Financial Post, and Profit magazine, as well as in syndicated television news magazines.
Burhanpurkar, V. 1993. “Design of commercial autonomous service robots”, in Proceedings of AAAI 1993 Fall Symposium Series: Instantiating Real-World Agents, Raleigh, NC, pp. 26-33.
Vivek P. Burhanpurkar, Colin Hinz, Ravi Lingarkar, Naresh K. Sinha, “Control Architecture of An Autonomous Surveillance Robot for Unstructured Environments”, in Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing: Research, Education and Applications (ISRAM ’90), Burnaby, Canada, July 18-20, 1990, Vol. 3, pp. 881-886.
V.P. Burhanpurkar, “Development of an Autonomous Surveillance Mobile Robot for Unstructured Environments”, in Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Military Robotics Applications, Kingston, ON, Canada, August 8-11, 1989, pp. 76-80.
V. Burhanpurkar, “New Approaches Enhance Path Guidance Technology”, Robotics World, February, 1990.
V.P. Burhanpurkar, “Real World Application of a Low-Cost High Performance Sensor System for Autonomous Mobile Robots”, in Proceedings of Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1994; “Advanced Robotic Systems and the Real World”, IROS, 1994.
Lang, S.; Roth, G.; Green, D.A.; Burhanpurkar, V. “Visual Measurement of Orientation Using Ceiling Features”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Instrumentation Measurement Technology Conference, Hamamatsu, Japan, May 10-12, 1994, pp. 552-555.
Mr. Burhanpurkar has also served on numerous international scientific committees:
Member, Organization Committee, Scientific Peer Reviewer, IEEE International Intelligent Robotics Symposium, Munich, Germany, 1994.
Session Chair, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Fifth World Conference on Robotics Research, Cambridge, MA, 1994.
Keynote Speaker, American Association of Artificial Intelligence Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1993.
Session Co-Chair, Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Conference, U.S. Department of Defence, Washington, D.C., 1993.
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