(May 10, 2017) The long time partnership between University of Parma and the United States continues: the US General Consul in Milan, Ambassador Philip T. Reeker, has made an official visit to Vislab-Ambarella's headquarters and laboratories at the University. The dean Loris Borghi and general manager of VisLab and professor at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Parma Alberto Broggi, reserved a warm welcome to the prestigious host. "During the meeting – said a note from University - Prof. Broggi showed to the consul the new vehicles prepared with innovative perception systems, based on artificial vision and some fully automated automotive prototype. Some of these systems are already available on the market and installed on standard cars". VisLab was born in the Nineties when a research group of the Department of Engineering of the University of Parma starts researches on intelligent help- drive systems. The first intelligent vehicle prototypes went internationally and become part of the world's automotive robotics history: VisLab was born first as a department lab and from 2009 become a spin-off of the University. VisLab went into businesses never tempted before. In 2010, worldwide media followed four electric vehicles automatically drive from Parma to Shanghai, and in 2013 a vehicle that starting from the Campus of Parma reaches the city center in every day traffic and without any human intervention. VisLab represents a huge success of a "know how" created at the University of Parma. (Red)

ABOUT / AMBARELLA

Born from a spin-off of the University of Parma, VisLab was acquired, for $30 million, in July 2015 by Ambarella, Silicon Valley's leading developer of video compression and image processing systems. After the acquisition, the company and its research team stay in Italy, developing R&D sector by recruiting additional human resources. The operation has already generated the hiring of forty young researchers for indefinite time.