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Robotics Industry Veteran Vivek Burhanpurkar to Lead Great Rock as President and CEOTORONTO, September 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Rock Development Corp. (OTC: GROC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Vivek Burhanpurkar. as President, C.E.O. and Director. Mr. Burhanpurkar attended the University of Toronto Faculty of Electrical Engineering from 1980 to 1984 (at the time, ranked #4 in North America after MIT, Stanford and Princeton) and wrote the world's first thesis paper on autonomous navigation for floor cleaning under department Chairman K.C. Smith (at the time, one of the world's most famous engineering professors -whose textbook is still the most widely used in the world: Sedra and Smith, Circuits and Systems). That paper was the catalyst for Mr. Burhanpurkar founding Cyberworks with the encouragement of his professor. The company was the first in the world to develop a fully autonomous floor cleaning robot and now constitutes the world's oldest autonomous mobile robotics company. Mr. Burhanpurkar has served on numerous international scientific committees, including:
Commenting on the appointment, "This is huge" stated Mr. John S. Wilkes, a Director of Great Rock Development. "I first met Vivek a nuber of years ago, shortly after his company, Cyberworks Robotics Inc., had made an ethical exit from manufacturing robots for industry. He was the first to say, "yeah, we are ahead of our time with our technology, but we still need to develop better robotic vision to allow for the wide-spread deployment of fully-autonomous equipment in society. When the market learns of what Vivek and his team has quietly accomplished over the past few years, it will tremble" added Mr. Wilkes". I defy anybody to find a better qualified individual to be running a company on the leading edge of autonomous robotic, vision-based, navigation systems" concluded Mr. Wilkes. A partial list of Mr. Burhanpurkar's early peer-reviewed scientific publications in major journals follows:
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