Paul J. Perrone authored numerous books and articles on various software technologies. 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, Paul Perrone also helped push affordable and extensible robotics into military applications and is a participant in the DARPA Grand Challenge.