Cool Robot Of The Week

Previous Cool From 2002

Dec 30 Robop - robot peregrine falcon invented to cause a flap among pigeons and seagulls.
Dec 23 SpiderBot - multi-legged robot developed by the Jet Propulsion Lab as a prototype mobility system.
Dec 16 Public Anemone - robotic creature with an organic appearance and natural quality of movement, part of the Robot Theatre from the MIT Robotic Life Group.
Dec 09 CRASAR - Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue, leading the development of robotic SAR since 9/11/01.
Dec 02 Tatooing Robot - we haven't found any more information beyond this story from Ananova, but the pictures are great!
Nov 25 LEMUR - six-legged walking robot built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Planetary Robotics Lab to perform dexterous small-scale assembly, inspection and maintenance of space facilities.
Nov 18 LegWay - two-wheel balancing robot, built from Lego Mindstorms kit by Steve Hassenplug - an excellent example of fundamental autonomy with basic tools (site includes liniks to code!).
Nov 11 Caribou - autonomous underwater sonar survey vehicle from the AUV Lab at MIT Sea Grant.
Nov 04 Falstaff - expendable explosive ordinance disposal robot, designed for the RIA Scholarship Competition, by Dan Kenney at Washington State University.
Oct 28 SmallBot - a small robot designed for the Seattle Robotics Society Robothon event.
Oct 21 Coco - a small ape-like robot built by the Humanoid Robotics Group at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab to explore humanoid intelligence.
Oct 14 Wheelesley - development of a robotic wheelchair system, for semi-autonomous travel in indoor settings.
Oct 07 Army-Ant Swarms - interesting master's thesis on self-organization in large populations of mobile robots, by Cem UnsalS.
Sep 30 Elvis - a 60cm prototype of a humanoid robot, part of the Chalmers University Humanoid Project.
Sep 23 Marvin - autonomous robotic helicopter with intelligent navigation, developed for the AUVSI International Aerial Robotics Competetion.
Sep 16 Artifical Muscles - overview of the work in artificial actuator systems at the JPL Nondestructive Evaluation and Advanced Actuators Technologies Lab (and see a movie of a demonstrator hand).
Sep 09 Lego Rubik's Solver - a very cool, dual-RCX, automated robot that solves the 3x3x3 Rubik's cube, by J.P. Brown (including RCX source code).
Sep 02 CONRO - miniature, reconfigurable robotics technology project from the USC Information Sciences Institute.
Aug 26 Sprawl Robots - fast, robust hexapods functionally inspired by nature, part of the ONR Biomimetics Robotics Project.
Aug 19 Bodicea - pneumatically powered walking robot developed by the MIT Humanoid Robotics Group.
Aug 12 Player - device server that provides a flexible interface to sensors and actuators (e.g., robots), based on a client/server model that allows control programs to be written in any language and on any computer with network connectivity to the robot. Downloadable software from the SourceForge.
Aug 05 ORCCAD - real-time robot control system software development tool, developed by INRIA as part of the BIP-2000 project.
Jul 29 Grace - the Challenge Team 2002 entry in this week's AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition. Pay attention to the software architecture discussion, and the available source code. See the CNN story here.
Jul 22 NurseBot - Joint CMU-UPitt-UMichigan project to develop a different robotic assistant for the elderly.
Jul 15 PAMM - the Personal Aid for Mobility and Health Monitoring project, developing robotic assistants for the elderly, from the MIT Field and Space Robotics Laboratory.
Jul 08 BotBall - Get the results of the 2002 BotBall National Conference and Tournament, held last week in Norman, OK.
Jul 01 Props - Personal Roving Presence systems. Check out the papers section that describe the systems.
Jun 24 RoboRats - I've heard of making men out of mice, but robots out of rats? See the SUNY story and the story from Nature here.
Jun 17 RoboCup 2002 - The gand-daddy of robotic soccer competitions runs again, appearing this week in Fukuoka, Japan. See the news story here.
Jun 10 Scorpion - Building a robust walking machine that autonomously interacts for an unrestricted time with a real world environment.
Jun 03 PRoP - Simple, inexpensive, internet-controlled, untethered tele-robots that strive to provide the sensation of tele-embodiment in a remote real space.
May 27 Artbots - first annual "Robot Talent Show" held this weekend at the Pratt Institute. See the NY Times article here.
May 20 Autonomous Vehicle Project - Australian National University project to develop a platform for mobile robotics and computer vision research by automating the control functions required to drive a car.
May 13 Haptic Display - tactile shape display using RC servomotors, developed by the Harvard University BioRobotics Lab.
May 06 CHARON - a language for modular specification of interacting hybrid systems, developed by the U. Penn. MARS program.
Apr 29 Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International/Techni-Products/The New England Air Museum/Veritech Media & Enrico Fermi High School - Chairmans Award Winner, and United Technologies Research Center & East Hartford High School & Rockville High School & Coventry High School & Beatty Machine and Manufacturing & School City of Hammond & GM Powertrain - Ypsilanti & Willow Run High School - play field winners of the National Championships, at the 2002 FIRST Robotics Competition held last weekend in Orlando.
Apr 22 Trinity College Fire Fighting - the longest-running robot fire fighting contest continues to be impressive.
Apr 15 CART - the CSA Automation and Robotics Testbed, part of the Canadian Space Agency Strategic Technologies for Automation and Robotics program.
Apr 08 Compact Maps - 3-D models from laser data which are compressed in real-time on board the robot allowing for incremental transmission to a host in short bursts, being developed by the Georgia Tech Mobile Robotics Lab.
Apr 01 Boilerplate - A little something from the history files. A "mechanical man" developed during the 1880s and unveiled at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
Mar 25 EyeBot - a controller for mobile wheeled, walking, or flying robots. Developed at the University of Western Australia Mobile Robot Lab, it consists of a 32-Bit microcontroller board with a graphics display and a digital grayscale or color camera input. The site include a developers software archive.
Mar 18 Micro Air Vehicle - University of Toronto project to develop a tiny (15 cm span) aircraft for surveillance missions.
Mar 11 RHex - a six legged robot capable of dynamically dextrous tasks with a single autonomous platform.
Mar 04 Red Rover - student navigators drive a Mars rover testbed, as part of the Mars Exploration Rover-2003 project "Red Rover Goes To Mars" experiment.
Feb 25 ARNOLD - Autonomous mobile Robot Navigation with Odometric and Link-based Dead-reckoning. Research from the McGill University Centre for Intelligent Machines.
Feb 18 Snake Robot - research in physics-based design, planning, and control of robotic systems in space, being conducted by the MIT Field and Space Robotics Laboratory.
Feb 11 Snake Robot - serpentine robot shown at the IJCAI 2001 convention in Seattle, built by a high school student (is this another Gavin Miller in the making?).
Feb 04 RoboMote - small, inexpensive mobile robot network project as part of the Scalable Coordination of Wireless Robots(SCOWR) project at USC's Robotics Embedded Systems Lab (RESL).
Jan 28 Marsupial Robots - deployable sub-robots for force-protection and force- multiplication capabilities.
Jan 21 Floppy The Robot - Complete plans to build a robot from a 3 1/2" floppy drive without taking it apart.
Jan 14 Entertainment Robots - utilizing robots to entertain and introduce guests to the Museum f�r Kommunikation in Berlin, Germany.
Jan 07 Robotic Work Crew - the development of multi-agent systems performing coordinated tasks for planetary exploration, being developed by NASA/JPL (including a description of the CAMPOUT architecture.
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	Dec 30		Robop - robot peregrine falcon invented to cause a flap among pigeons and seagulls.
	Dec 23		SpiderBot - multi-legged robot developed by the Jet Propulsion Lab as a prototype mobility system.
	Dec 16		Public Anemone - robotic creature with an organic appearance and natural quality of movement, part of the Robot Theatre from the MIT Robotic Life Group.
	Dec 09		CRASAR - Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue, leading the development of robotic SAR since 9/11/01.
	Dec 02		Tatooing Robot - we haven't found any more information beyond this story from Ananova, but the pictures are great!
	Nov 25		LEMUR - six-legged walking robot built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Planetary Robotics Lab to perform dexterous small-scale assembly, inspection and maintenance of space facilities.
	Nov 18		LegWay - two-wheel balancing robot, built from Lego Mindstorms kit by Steve Hassenplug - an excellent example of fundamental autonomy with basic tools (site includes liniks to code!).
	Nov 11		Caribou - autonomous underwater sonar survey vehicle from the AUV Lab at MIT Sea Grant.
	Nov 04		Falstaff - expendable explosive ordinance disposal robot, designed for the RIA Scholarship Competition, by Dan Kenney at Washington State University.
	Oct 28		SmallBot - a small robot designed for the Seattle Robotics Society Robothon event.
	Oct 21		Coco - a small ape-like robot built by the Humanoid Robotics Group at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab to explore humanoid intelligence.
	Oct 14		Wheelesley - development of a robotic wheelchair system, for semi-autonomous travel in indoor settings.
	Oct 07		Army-Ant Swarms - interesting master's thesis on self-organization in large populations of mobile robots, by Cem UnsalS.
	Sep 30		Elvis - a 60cm prototype of a humanoid robot, part of the Chalmers University Humanoid Project.
	Sep 23		Marvin - autonomous robotic helicopter with intelligent navigation, developed for the AUVSI International Aerial Robotics Competetion.
	Sep 16		Artifical Muscles - overview of the work in artificial actuator systems at the JPL Nondestructive Evaluation and Advanced Actuators Technologies Lab (and see a movie of a demonstrator hand).
	Sep 09		Lego Rubik's Solver - a very cool, dual-RCX, automated robot that solves the 3x3x3 Rubik's cube, by J.P. Brown (including RCX source code).
	Sep 02		CONRO - miniature, reconfigurable robotics technology project from the USC Information Sciences Institute.
	Aug 26		Sprawl Robots - fast, robust hexapods functionally inspired by nature, part of the ONR Biomimetics Robotics Project.
	Aug 19		Bodicea - pneumatically powered walking robot developed by the MIT Humanoid Robotics Group.
	Aug 12		Player - device server that provides a flexible interface to sensors and actuators (e.g., robots), based on a client/server model that allows control programs to be written in any language and on any computer with network connectivity to the robot. Downloadable software from the SourceForge.
	Aug 05		ORCCAD - real-time robot control system software development tool, developed by INRIA as part of the BIP-2000 project.
	Jul 29		Grace - the Challenge Team 2002 entry in this week's AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition. Pay attention to the software architecture discussion, and the available source code. See the CNN story here.
	Jul 22		NurseBot - Joint CMU-UPitt-UMichigan project to develop a different robotic assistant for the elderly.
	Jul 15		PAMM - the Personal Aid for Mobility and Health Monitoring project, developing robotic assistants for the elderly, from the MIT Field and Space Robotics Laboratory.
	Jul 08		BotBall - Get the results of the 2002 BotBall National Conference and Tournament, held last week in Norman, OK.
	Jul 01		Props - Personal Roving Presence systems. Check out the papers section that describe the systems.
	Jun 24		RoboRats - I've heard of making men out of mice, but robots out of rats? See the SUNY story and the story from Nature here.
	Jun 17		RoboCup 2002 - The gand-daddy of robotic soccer competitions runs again, appearing this week in Fukuoka, Japan. See the news story here.
	Jun 10		Scorpion - Building a robust walking machine that autonomously interacts for an unrestricted time with a real world environment.
	Jun 03		PRoP - Simple, inexpensive, internet-controlled, untethered tele-robots that strive to provide the sensation of tele-embodiment in a remote real space.
	May 27		Artbots - first annual "Robot Talent Show" held this weekend at the Pratt Institute. See the NY Times article here.
	May 20		Autonomous Vehicle Project - Australian National University project to develop a platform for mobile robotics and computer vision research by automating the control functions required to drive a car.
	May 13		Haptic Display - tactile shape display using RC servomotors, developed by the Harvard University BioRobotics Lab.
	May 06		CHARON - a language for modular specification of interacting hybrid systems, developed by the U. Penn. MARS program.
	Apr 29		Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International/Techni-Products/The New England Air Museum/Veritech Media & Enrico Fermi High School - Chairmans Award Winner, and United Technologies Research Center & East Hartford High School & Rockville High School & Coventry High School & Beatty Machine and Manufacturing & School City of Hammond & GM Powertrain - Ypsilanti & Willow Run High School - play field winners of the National Championships, at the 2002 FIRST Robotics Competition held last weekend in Orlando.
	Apr 22		Trinity College Fire Fighting - the longest-running robot fire fighting contest continues to be impressive.
	Apr 15		CART - the CSA Automation and Robotics Testbed, part of the Canadian Space Agency Strategic Technologies for Automation and Robotics program.
	Apr 08		Compact Maps - 3-D models from laser data which are compressed in real-time on board the robot allowing for incremental transmission to a host in short bursts, being developed by the Georgia Tech Mobile Robotics Lab.
	Apr 01		Boilerplate - A little something from the history files. A "mechanical man" developed during the 1880s and unveiled at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
	Mar 25		EyeBot - a controller for mobile wheeled, walking, or flying robots. Developed at the University of Western Australia Mobile Robot Lab, it consists of a 32-Bit microcontroller board with a graphics display and a digital grayscale or color camera input. The site include a developers software archive.
	Mar 18		Micro Air Vehicle - University of Toronto project to develop a tiny (15 cm span) aircraft for surveillance missions.
	Mar 11		RHex - a six legged robot capable of dynamically dextrous tasks with a single autonomous platform.
	Mar 04		Red Rover - student navigators drive a Mars rover testbed, as part of the Mars Exploration Rover-2003 project "Red Rover Goes To Mars" experiment.
	Feb 25		ARNOLD - Autonomous mobile Robot Navigation with Odometric and Link-based Dead-reckoning. Research from the McGill University Centre for Intelligent Machines.
	Feb 18		Snake Robot - research in physics-based design, planning, and control of robotic systems in space, being conducted by the MIT Field and Space Robotics Laboratory.
	Feb 11		Snake Robot - serpentine robot shown at the IJCAI 2001 convention in Seattle, built by a high school student (is this another Gavin Miller in the making?).
	Feb 04		RoboMote - small, inexpensive mobile robot network project as part of the Scalable Coordination of Wireless Robots(SCOWR) project at USC's Robotics Embedded Systems Lab (RESL).
	Jan 28		Marsupial Robots - deployable sub-robots for force-protection and force- multiplication capabilities.
	Jan 21		Floppy The Robot - Complete plans to build a robot from a 3 1/2" floppy drive without taking it apart.
	Jan 14		Entertainment Robots - utilizing robots to entertain and introduce guests to the Museum f�r Kommunikation in Berlin, Germany.
	Jan 07		Robotic Work Crew - the development of multi-agent systems performing coordinated tasks for planetary exploration, being developed by NASA/JPL (including a description of the CAMPOUT architecture.