On his way out, Trump pardons Anthony Levandowski, Berkeley engineer who stole trade secrets
He pleaded guilty in federal court to taking information on driverless cars from Google but will no longer face 18 months in federal prison.
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Just hours before leaving the White House, President Trump pardoned Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer from Berkeley who pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets about driverless cars from Google and was facing 18 months in prison.
Levandowski, who once had a home on Ashby Avenue that was picketed in 2014 by activists concerned about Google’s “evil surveillance techniques,” worked in Google’s self-driving car section, now called Waymo. He left to form his own driverless truck company, Otto, but not before downloading thousands of proprietary files from Google, he admitted in federal court in August when he pleaded guilty. Levandowski sold the truck company to Uber in 2016.
Solving Our Global Challenges with the 2020 Silicon Valley Robotics Good Robot Industry Awards
OAKLAND, CA / ACCESSWIRE / December 14, 2020 / Silicon Valley Robotics, the world s largest cluster of innovation in robotics, announces the inaugural Good Robot Industry Awards, celebrating the robotics, automation, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) that will help us solve global challenges. These 52 companies and individuals have all contributed to innovation that will improve the quality of our lives, whether it s weed-free pesticide-free farming, like FarmWise or Iron-Ox; supporting health workers and the elderly manage health care treatment regimes, like Catalia Health or Multiply Labs; or reimagining the logistics industry so that the transfer of physical goods becomes as efficient as the transfer of information, like Cruise, Embark, Matternet, and Zipline.