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Evolution Robotics Wins U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research contract valued at nearly $1 million

Pasadena, CALIF. – JULY 8, 2009 – Evolution Robotics Inc., a leading robotics technology company, announced today that it has won a federal contract from the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research valued at nearly $1 million for research on scaling visual recognition for maritime domain awareness. Evolution Robotics is a recognized leader in object recognition and vision technologies and the military has consistently selected Evolution for their research and development expertise. In the past, the company has collaborated with the military on projects ranging from RPG detection to UAV autonomous navigation. The Navy's most recent selection of Evolution Robotics is based on the company’s expertise in low-power embedded systems for visual recognition. Evolution will assist the Navy in developing real-time systems that can be deployed in the field for the purpose of recognizing objects such as boats, aircraft and road vehicles, regardless of potential distracters such as weather conditions, lighting, scale and viewpoint.

"We're pleased to have the Navy select Evolution Robotics and we're excited to work with them on their advanced research efforts," said Dr. Paolo Pirjanian, CEO of Evolution Robotics. "The main challenge with vision is to develop algorithms that reliably and efficiently solve a problem in realistic settings, with limited computing power. Evolution Robotics is a recognized performer under military contracts and this award represents an extension of the previous work we have done to successfully transfer military grade technologies to the next generation of low-cost consumer products and solutions."

Evolution Robotics focuses much of its R&D in the area of computer vision because of the potential it offers for current and future product developments. The company specializes in taking the advanced, military-grade technologies it develops and applying them to consumer level products – at consumer level prices – with the aim of making everyday products smarter. As an example of these technologies in the hands of consumers, NTT DoCoMo customers in Japan, using Evolution's ER Search product, can use their camera phone to take pictures of movie posters, music CDs and even wine labels to order tickets, download ring tones and mp3's and get product reviews, all with just one quick snap shot. (A video demonstration of Evolution Robotics' visual search technology running on Apple's iPhone can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/user/EvolutionRobotics)

About Evolution Robotics
Evolution Robotics, Inc. is based in Pasadena, CA, and partners with brand leaders to make their products smarter by providing solutions for vision, autonomous navigation and intelligence. From toys to cell phones and vacuum cleaners to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's) the company has over 5 million products on the market through partners such as Sony, Bandai, Sharper Image and AU Phones from KDDI in Japan. Evolution Robotics is an operating company of Idealab, a creator and operator of technology businesses. http://www.evolution.com

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