http://www.cs.cmu.ed u/~mobot/
Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
The Mobot competition is designed to allow the participants to explore some of the main technical aspects involved in building an autonomous robotic agent.
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Illah Nourbakhsh of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute teaches you how to set up and use your Gigapan robotic system.
Watch all four videos to see the process from start to finish, then explore more at:
http://www.gigapa n.org/
Ralph Hollis and his team's Ballbot were featured on the Discovery Channel Canada television show "Daily Planet".
Special thanks to Producer Ben Schaub and Discovery Channel Canada.
Learn more about Ballbot here:
http://www.ri.cmu .edu/projects/projec t_486.html
Learn more about "Daily Planet" here:
http://www.discov erychannel.ca/conten t/?pid=183
Video 2 of 4
Illah Nourbakhsh of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute teaches you how to set up and use your Gigapan robotic system.
Watch all four videos to see the process from start to finish, then explore more at:
http://www.gigapa n.org/
Video 3 of 4
Illah Nourbakhsh of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute teaches you how to set up and use your Gigapan robotic system.
Watch all four videos to see the process from start to finish, then explore more at:
http://www.gigapa n.org/
tartanracing.org
The Urban Challenge is a 60-mile skill competition of driverless vehicles through streets and intersections. Urban Challenge vehicles must drive effectively and safely, react and interact with other traffic, and reason about intention. This competition will be held November 3, 2007.
Randy Sargent and Tom Lauwers of Carnegie Mellon University with a quick overview on the the Gigapan system.
For an in-depth tutorial, watch 4 videos from Illah beginning here:
http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=HNIvJl x0E4U
Then learn more at gigapan.org
Howie Choset's Intro to Robotics Class at the Robotics Institute made some Rube Goldbergs for their first class project. (January 2008)
http://www.genera lrobotics.org/
Video 4 of 4
Illah Nourbakhsh of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute teaches you how to set up and use your Gigapan robotic system.
Watch all four videos to see the process from start to finish, then explore more at:
http://www.gigapa n.org/
http://www.ri.cmu.ed u/projects/project_3 35.html
This new robot is named Scarab and is part of the the Lunar Ice Discovery Initiative. The LIDI intends to conduct a robotic ground investigation of the southern polar region of the Moon.
http://www.frc.ri.cm u.edu/atacama/
Zoë is designed to be a highly capable robotic astrobiologist. Equipped with specialized sensors, Zoë will roam the Atacama desert in search of life.
http://calendar.cs.c mu.edu/scsEvents/dem o/3514.html
http://www.cs.cmu .edu/~rel/
Students have to build a robot, drive through a mock collapsed building and locate survivors (World Wrestling Federation figures with famous CMU people's faces pasted on them). One small challenge: students are in a remote location driving the robot using images from a camera on-board the robot.
Takeo Kanade discusses environmental robotic systems. A symposium in honor of his 60th birthday was held at Carnegie Mellon on March 9th. Learn more on the Robotics Institute website: www.ri.cmu.edu
The Robotics Institute is working with The Auditory School of New York to create educational programs that incorporate robotics.
http://www.oralde afed.org/schools/aos ny/index.html
Special thanks to Linda Hamilton for providing the narration.
http://www.cs.cmu.ed u/afs/cs/project/alv /www/index.html
Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute has been building vehicles that drive themselves on roads for over two decades.
