Career
He has also founded Perrone Robotics fusing open and standard software technologies with the field of robotics. He has helped push robotics into the mainstream and brought the term "popular robotics" into the public eye. In addition to robotics software for personal and professional use.
Perrone was the team lead for Team Jefferson, a 2005 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Grand Challenge team, and a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Grand Challenge (2007) team
He has been a frequent presenter at Sun Microsystem"s JavaOne conference, namely James Gosling"s keynote sessions presenting an autonomous dune buggy (Tommy), an unmanned helicopter, an autonomous Scion Xb (Tommy Junior), and Lincvolt, an energy-efficient vehicle owned and spearheaded by rock star Neil Young. He is featured in a documentary about a robotic car entered into the historic 2005 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Grand Challenge and was featured in a Discovery Science special called "RoboCars" for his robotic car entered into the 2007 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Urban Challenge.
In 2010, he was also one of 25 individuals living in Charlottesville, Virginia who are well regarded in their respective fields.
