J2R Scientific  

J2R Scientific is focused on robotics, artificial intelligences and machine learning.

 You can follow my research progress and any special project I am working on from Twitter @JustinRatliff as I tweet about projects, research and robotics news.

Our Business

When you purchase a robot or product from J2R Scientific it is hand crafted or assembled at the time of the order. I consider each robot I make to be a unique custom robot.  Any ideas you would like to incorporate into your robot I would be happy to help you with.  I also maintain the ability to offer larger scale production runs of robots or kits if you are looking to purchase items in larger quantity.

Who Is J2R

J2R Scientific is owned and operated by Justin R. Ratliff.  I was the President of The Robotics Club of Yahoo back when it was active.  I have been a robotic enthusiast and robot builder since age 5.  I hold several IT certifications.  I have over 10 years of manufacturing development and prototyping experience.  And I have over 20 years of combined amateur and professional robot building knowledge.  I also currently work for a large heath insurance company in their enterprise wide technology support department.

Learning is a life long passion for me and besides robotics I am drawn towards the subjects of artificial intelligence, how the human mind works, music, painting. as well as history. 

Accomplishments

Released the first public version of the open souce multiple face recognition application know as EZ-Face on 3/2/2014. 

Competed in the Jameco Electronics "Coaster Bot II: Robot Design Contest". Deadline was 8/31/2013  RatBot entry.

Competed in the U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center, and Parallax Inc."MicroMedic" contest.  Deadline was 7/31/2013  Contest Entry Submission.

Justin Ratliff spoke at the Ohio Mensa Regional Gathering in Dayton, OH on Saturday March, 23, 2013 and discussed "Robotics to Assist Children with Autism and other Special Needs."

Safety Sam "Bubby" robot retrofit completed 1-20-2010.  The Safety Sam robot was produced by Robotronics, Inc.

I participated and graduated from the Citizens Police Academy, sponsored by the Monroe Division of Police in 2004 and again in 2010.

TRCY discussed and listed as one of the best Internet based robotics club in SERVO magazine June 2004

TRCY discussed and listed in Gordon McComb’s bestseller “Robot Builder’s Bonanza: 2^nd Edition”.

Published Interview in the Cincinnati Post 5/26/2000 with discussion on “Making Robots a Reality.” 

Developed the autonomous fighting robot contest for TRCY in 1999, which is possibly the first autonomous fighting robot contest. 

Developed, marketed and produced a small customizable robot kit called TRaCY.  TRaCY was developed jointly with engineers from OptoTronics and Hewlett-Packard, along with support from Parallax, Inc.  This small robot was easily programmable with a PC.  Could run autonomously once programmed.  Was designed as a first robot for beginners to the hobby.  Buyers of the TRaCY ranged from 14-year-olds in Iowa, to NASA JPL engineers who used the robot in a youth outreach program, to a Professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.  The TRaCY robot kit was exported to Canada, The UK, Germany, Turkey and New Zealand.  http://members.tripod.com/RoBoJRR/tracy.htm

President of TRCY in 1998.  Started, developed, promoted and sponsored one of the first and largest Internet based Robotics Club, which is TRCY or The Robotics Club of Yahoo with over 4,000 members from across the globe.  http://robojrr.tripod.com/