Cool Robot Of The Week

Previous Cool From 1999

Dec 27 Space Robot Scientists - homepage for the band (OK, we know they are not really robots, but the name was just too cool to ignore!).
Dec 20 TeamBots 2.0 - a Java-based collection of application programs and Java packages for multiagent mobile robotics research, from the Georgia Tech Mobile Robot Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University.
Dec 13 NINJA-II - quadruped wall climbing robot, from the Hirose & Yoneda robotics lab at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Dec 06 Battle Bots - taking robot combat to the next step, with head-to-head combat, exhilarating entertainment, and pay-per-view TV coverage.
Nov 29 Mars Autonomy Project - CMU project focused on autonomous navigation for Mars exploration.
Nov 22 SubjuGator - a robotic underwater vehicle from the University of Florida Machine Intelligence Lab.
Nov 15 SR-10 Inspector - an ordinance disposal robot developed by Industrial Research Institute for Automation & Measurements (PIAP) - note the intriguing front "mini-tread" design for stability on stairs.
Nov 08 SlugBot - a robotic slug-picker, powered by fermenting the bodies of its victims - created by those clever folks at the Intellignet Autonomous Systems Engineering Lab at the University of West England (see the full BBS story here).
Nov 01 Monroe - a bipedal walking robot from EMURA lab at Tohoku University (they also have an interesting quadruped robot.
Oct 25 Robot Armageddon - the story of the second Robot Wars competition, held in San Francisco, complete with photos and digital video. Start preparing now for Robot Wars III (filming this month!).
Oct 18 BURP - the Biomimetic Underwater Robot Program at Northeastern University Marine Science Center - check out the Lobster-bot!.
Oct 11 Rowing Robot - the world's first (probably) robot that rows a boat like a human rower, from those wacky folks at the Automation Laboratory at the Helsinki University of Technology.
Oct 04 Robosaurus - this is what happens when you mix equal parts of a robot, dinosaur and monster truck together...
Sep 27 Gyrover - a unique single wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robotic mobility platform from the Vision Autonomous Systems Center at CMU
Sep 20 Frontier Based Exploration - research into using "frontiers" to exploring unknown territories, from the NCARAI
Sep 13 Little John - a DARPA-sponsored project to develop control and tasking of multiple heterogeneous robots
Sep 06 The Upuaut Project - exploration of the interior of the Pyramid of Cheops, enabled with robotic explorers which climb ropes and wander up air shafts
Aug 30 Cool Robot Project - an exploration in machine learning with simple walking machines at UIUC (OK, we admit, we couldn't resist the name)
Aug 23 Twin Burger - a underwater test bed for intelligent behavior development, from the Univeristy of Tokyo
Aug 16 Biped Walker - an interesting pneumatically-actuated walking machine from theShadow Robot Project
Aug 09 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition - The second annual AUV competition, held this past week at the Naval Coastal Systems Station in Panama City, FL (the winners have not yet been posted)
Aug 02 RoboCup - The world robotic soccer championships, being held this week in Stockholm in conjunction with IJCAI-99 - see the live webcast!
Jul 26 AROD - The Airborne Remotely Operated Device was developed as used by the U.S. Department of Defense in the mid-1980's as a UAV technology testbed
Jul 19 ERAST - Robotic high-altitude environmental research aircraft developed at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility
Jul 12 MAV - Robotic micro air vehicle under development by the DARPA Tactical Technologies Office
Jul 05 ALSARM - Advanced life support automated robotic manipulator, part of the CELSS research facility at Kennedy Space Center
Jun 28 Artisan - A semiautomatic Task Space Scene Analysis (TSSA) software tool for constructing 3-D work zone models around a robot, developed by the CMU Field Robotics Center
Jun 14 Robot Bower Birds - University of Maryland project to create feathered female robots to take part in zoologoical studies regarding the mating habits of bower birds
Jun 07 Vision Guided Precision Assembly - CMU Microdynamics Systems Lab project to explore the precision robotic assembly of small, powerful wearable computers
May 31 FLL Robot - toy robots in space on STS-96!
May 24 MIT Hack - A special selection, in honor of last week's opening of Star Wars, and the robot we all really want to build
May 17 Killerhurtz - a winning entry in the BBC Robot Wars series - will Robot Wars be back for real this time?
May 10 Pebbles - Pebbles - MIT prototype Mars Planetary Rover, with a novel manipulator powered by series elastic actuators
May 03 FIDO Field Tests- In preparation for launch of the Athena payload to Mars in 2003, FIDO completed a series of field tests at Silver Lake last week
Apr 26 Windsor Locks High School, Suffield High School and UTC - Hamilton Standard Aces High - winners of the National Championships, and NASA Glenn Research Center and East Technical High School Scarabian Knights- winners of the Chairman's Award, at the 1999 FIRST Robotics Competition held last weekend in Orlando.
Apr 19 Continual Robot Learning- mobile robotics project from the University of Birmingham, which includes a cool web based control interface to RITA the mobile robot (which is pretty fast when it is on-line).
Apr 12 Entomopter- A very cool mechanical insect, based around Reciprocating Chemical Muscle chemical energy technology to generate wing motion.
Apr 06 PAKY- Surgical robot system from Johns Hopkins University, for Percutaneous Access to the KidneY.
Mar 29 Neptune- mobile robotics research by DLR, with nice Java demo showing the images seen by the robot during one test.
Mar 22 Yamabico- a family of mobile robotics research platforms developed at the University of Tsukuba - see the family photo album!.
Mar 15 Biomimetics- Stanford research in biomimetic robots for operation in unstrucutred environments (in particular, see the discussion of prototype manufacturing in the "documents" section).
Mar 08 Microtweezers- for true "small robotic appications" here are some very tiny end-effectors that you might want to review (now we just need a small peg to put in a small hole - oh, wait! Here is one!).
Mar 01 ARC Regional- CNN story about the west coast FIRST Robotics regional competition held last week at the NASA Ames Research Center.
Feb 22 EVE- one of the several mobile research robots from the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group at LAAS (and yes, it it based on another Marsokhod chasis from VNII Transmach).
Feb 15 Marsokhod Field Tests- extended field testing of the Marsokhod planetary rover in the Mojave desert, including live RealMedia updates
Feb 08 HART - Hypobaric Activity Robotic Teleoperator

Feb 01 ACFR Undersea Vehicles- Undersea research vehicles from the University of Sydney, which may someday survey sections of the Great Barrier Reef
Jan 25 Lisa- cognative robotics research testbed utilized by GMD, with extensive links to their research efforts.
Jan 18 Evolving Robotics Behaviours- the Naval Research Lab explores alternative robot behaviors within simulation model to automate the creation of those behaviours.
Jan 11 FIRST- home page for the US FIRST robotics competition, which started this week.
Jan 04 MVACS- launched on Jan. 03 as an element of the Mars Polar Lander payload, MVACS includes a robotic arm which will sample and image soil near the South Pole of Mars.
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Last updated: May 10, 1999

	Dec 27		Space Robot Scientists - homepage for the band (OK, we know they are not really robots, but the name was just too cool to ignore!).
	Dec 20		TeamBots 2.0 - a Java-based collection of application programs and Java packages for multiagent mobile robotics research, from the Georgia Tech Mobile Robot Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University.
	Dec 13		NINJA-II - quadruped wall climbing robot, from the Hirose & Yoneda robotics lab at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
	Dec 06		Battle Bots - taking robot combat to the next step, with head-to-head combat, exhilarating entertainment, and pay-per-view TV coverage.
	Nov 29		Mars Autonomy Project - CMU project focused on autonomous navigation for Mars exploration.
	Nov 22		SubjuGator - a robotic underwater vehicle from the University of Florida Machine Intelligence Lab.
	Nov 15		SR-10 Inspector - an ordinance disposal robot developed by Industrial Research Institute for Automation & Measurements (PIAP) - note the intriguing front "mini-tread" design for stability on stairs.
	Nov 08		SlugBot - a robotic slug-picker, powered by fermenting the bodies of its victims - created by those clever folks at the Intellignet Autonomous Systems Engineering Lab at the University of West England (see the full BBS story here).
	Nov 01		Monroe - a bipedal walking robot from EMURA lab at Tohoku University (they also have an interesting quadruped robot.
	Oct 25		Robot Armageddon - the story of the second Robot Wars competition, held in San Francisco, complete with photos and digital video. Start preparing now for Robot Wars III (filming this month!).
	Oct 18		BURP - the Biomimetic Underwater Robot Program at Northeastern University Marine Science Center - check out the Lobster-bot!.
	Oct 11		Rowing Robot - the world's first (probably) robot that rows a boat like a human rower, from those wacky folks at the Automation Laboratory at the Helsinki University of Technology.
	Oct 04		Robosaurus - this is what happens when you mix equal parts of a robot, dinosaur and monster truck together...
	Sep 27		Gyrover - a unique single wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robotic mobility platform from the Vision Autonomous Systems Center at CMU
	Sep 20		Frontier Based Exploration - research into using "frontiers" to exploring unknown territories, from the NCARAI
	Sep 13		Little John - a DARPA-sponsored project to develop control and tasking of multiple heterogeneous robots
	Sep 06		The Upuaut Project - exploration of the interior of the Pyramid of Cheops, enabled with robotic explorers which climb ropes and wander up air shafts
	Aug 30		Cool Robot Project - an exploration in machine learning with simple walking machines at UIUC (OK, we admit, we couldn't resist the name)
	Aug 23		Twin Burger - a underwater test bed for intelligent behavior development, from the Univeristy of Tokyo
	Aug 16		Biped Walker - an interesting pneumatically-actuated walking machine from theShadow Robot Project
	Aug 09		Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition - The second annual AUV competition, held this past week at the Naval Coastal Systems Station in Panama City, FL (the winners have not yet been posted)
	Aug 02		RoboCup - The world robotic soccer championships, being held this week in Stockholm in conjunction with IJCAI-99 - see the live webcast!
	Jul 26		AROD - The Airborne Remotely Operated Device was developed as used by the U.S. Department of Defense in the mid-1980's as a UAV technology testbed
	Jul 19		ERAST - Robotic high-altitude environmental research aircraft developed at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility
	Jul 12		MAV - Robotic micro air vehicle under development by the DARPA Tactical Technologies Office
	Jul 05		ALSARM - Advanced life support automated robotic manipulator, part of the CELSS research facility at Kennedy Space Center
	Jun 28		Artisan - A semiautomatic Task Space Scene Analysis (TSSA) software tool for constructing 3-D work zone models around a robot, developed by the CMU Field Robotics Center
	Jun 14		Robot Bower Birds - University of Maryland project to create feathered female robots to take part in zoologoical studies regarding the mating habits of bower birds
	Jun 07		Vision Guided Precision Assembly - CMU Microdynamics Systems Lab project to explore the precision robotic assembly of small, powerful wearable computers
	May 31		FLL Robot - toy robots in space on STS-96!
	May 24		MIT Hack - A special selection, in honor of last week's opening of Star Wars, and the robot we all really want to build
	May 17		Killerhurtz - a winning entry in the BBC Robot Wars series - will Robot Wars be back for real this time?
	May 10		Pebbles - Pebbles - MIT prototype Mars Planetary Rover, with a novel manipulator powered by series elastic actuators
	May 03		FIDO Field Tests- In preparation for launch of the Athena payload to Mars in 2003, FIDO completed a series of field tests at Silver Lake last week
	Apr 26		Windsor Locks High School, Suffield High School and UTC - Hamilton Standard Aces High - winners of the National Championships, and NASA Glenn Research Center and East Technical High School Scarabian Knights- winners of the Chairman's Award, at the 1999 FIRST Robotics Competition held last weekend in Orlando.
	Apr 19		Continual Robot Learning- mobile robotics project from the University of Birmingham, which includes a cool web based control interface to RITA the mobile robot (which is pretty fast when it is on-line).
	Apr 12		Entomopter- A very cool mechanical insect, based around Reciprocating Chemical Muscle chemical energy technology to generate wing motion.
	Apr 06		PAKY- Surgical robot system from Johns Hopkins University, for Percutaneous Access to the KidneY.
	Mar 29		Neptune- mobile robotics research by DLR, with nice Java demo showing the images seen by the robot during one test.
	Mar 22		Yamabico- a family of mobile robotics research platforms developed at the University of Tsukuba - see the family photo album!.
	Mar 15		Biomimetics- Stanford research in biomimetic robots for operation in unstrucutred environments (in particular, see the discussion of prototype manufacturing in the "documents" section).
	Mar 08		Microtweezers- for true "small robotic appications" here are some very tiny end-effectors that you might want to review (now we just need a small peg to put in a small hole - oh, wait! Here is one!).
	Mar 01		ARC Regional- CNN story about the west coast FIRST Robotics regional competition held last week at the NASA Ames Research Center.
	Feb 22		EVE- one of the several mobile research robots from the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group at LAAS (and yes, it it based on another Marsokhod chasis from VNII Transmach).
	Feb 15		Marsokhod Field Tests- extended field testing of the Marsokhod planetary rover in the Mojave desert, including live RealMedia updates
	Feb 08		HART - Hypobaric Activity Robotic Teleoperator
	Feb 01		ACFR Undersea Vehicles- Undersea research vehicles from the University of Sydney, which may someday survey sections of the Great Barrier Reef
	Jan 25		Lisa- cognative robotics research testbed utilized by GMD, with extensive links to their research efforts.
	Jan 18		Evolving Robotics Behaviours- the Naval Research Lab explores alternative robot behaviors within simulation model to automate the creation of those behaviours.
	Jan 11		FIRST- home page for the US FIRST robotics competition, which started this week.
	Jan 04		MVACS- launched on Jan. 03 as an element of the Mars Polar Lander payload, MVACS includes a robotic arm which will sample and image soil near the South Pole of Mars.