Anthony Levandowski
- January 9, 2024
- Engineer
Quick Facts
Full Name | Anthony Levandowski |
Occupation | Engineer |
Date Of Birth | Mar 15, 1980(1980-03-15) |
Age | 44 |
Country | United States |
Horoscope | Pisces |
Anthony Levandowski Biography
Name | Anthony Levandowski |
Birthday | Mar 15 |
Birth Year | 1980 |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Pisces |
Anthony Levandowski is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on March 15, 1980 in United States.
In 1998, Levandowski entered the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. As a freshman, he launched an intranet service from his basement. In 2004 he and fellow UC Berkeley engineers built an autonomous motorcycle, nicknamed Ghostrider, for the DARPA Grand Challenge. The Ghostrider motorcycle competed in the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004 and 2005 and was the only autonomous two-wheeled vehicle in the competition. The motorcycle now resides in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
In 2007 Levandowski joined Google to work on Google Street View with Sebastian Thrun, whom he had met at the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. While still working at Google he founded 510 Systems, a mobile mapping start-up that experimented with lidar technology. In 2008 he founded Anthony’s Robots to build the Pribot, “a self-driving Toyota Prius with one of the first spinning Lidar laser ranging units, and the first ever to drive on public roads.”
Anthony Levandowski Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Engineer |
House | Living in own house. |
Anthony Levandowski is one of the richest Engineer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anthony Levandowski 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Anthony Levandowski (born March 15, 1980) is a French-American self-driving car engineer known for his work in the advancement of self-driving technology. In 2016 he co-founded Ottomotto, LLC an autonomous trucking company, with Lior Ron, Claire Delaunay and Don Burnette which later sold to Uber Technologies, Inc. Prior to founding Otto, he helped build the Google self-driving car program, working as a co-founder and technical lead on the project known as Waymo from 2009 until his departure in 2016. In 2018 he co-founded Pronto trucking company. Pronto was the first company to complete a cross-country drive in an autonomous vehicle in October 2018. Despite this, at the 2019 AV Summit hosted by The Information, Levandowski remarked that a fundamental breakthrough in AI is needed to move autonomous vehicle technology forward.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Height | 6 ft 6 in |
Anthony Levandowski height 6 ft 6 in Anthony weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
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On August 27th, 2019, Levandowski was charged by the Department of Justice for the alleged theft of trade secrets from Google’s self-driving unit Waymo. The charges alleged Levandowski downloaded thousands of files from Waymo’s predecessor, Project Chauffeur, in the months before he left Google. The files allegedly included “critical engineering information about the hardware used on Project Chauffeur self-driving vehicles,” and that Levandowski transferred files onto his personal laptop before leaving the company. Following the indictment, Pronto, a new self-driving trucking company that Levandowski co- founded, announced their Chief Safety Officer, Robbie Miller, would take over as CEO.
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On March 19, 2020 Levandowski pleaded guilty to one of the thirty-three charges originally brought against him by the Department of Justice. Levandowski’s plea to the 33rd count was for downloading an internal project tracking document called, “Chauffer TL Weekly – Q4 2015.” Originally charged with stealing documents containing trade secrets, technical specifications, and Lidar design, “Chauffer Weekly” was a single spreadsheet consisting of team goals, project metrics, and weekly status updates accessible by Levandowski’s team on an unsecured Google Drive. Levandowski admitted to accessing the document about one month after leaving Google in February 2016. “Mr. Levandowski accepts responsibility and is looking forward to resolving this matter,” his attorney, Miles Ehrlich, said in a statement. Judge William Alsup, will decide Levandowski’s final sentence.