Previous Cool From 1999
  |   | Space Robot Scientists - homepage for the band (OK, we know they are not really robots, but the name was just too cool to ignore!). | |
  |   | 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. | |
  |   | NINJA-II - quadruped wall climbing robot, from the Hirose & Yoneda robotics lab at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. | |
  |   | Battle Bots - taking robot combat to the next step, with head-to-head combat, exhilarating entertainment, and pay-per-view TV coverage. | |
  |   | Mars Autonomy Project - CMU project focused on autonomous navigation for Mars exploration. | |
  |   | SubjuGator - a robotic underwater vehicle from the University of Florida Machine Intelligence Lab. | |
  |   | 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. | |
  |   | 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). | |
  |   | Monroe - a bipedal walking robot from EMURA lab at Tohoku University (they also have an interesting quadruped robot. | |
  |   | 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!). | |
  |   | BURP - the Biomimetic Underwater Robot Program at Northeastern University Marine Science Center - check out the Lobster-bot!. | |
  |   | 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. | |
  |   | Robosaurus - this is what happens when you mix equal parts of a robot, dinosaur and monster truck together... | |
  |   | Gyrover - a unique single wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robotic mobility platform from the Vision Autonomous Systems Center at CMU | |
  |   | Frontier Based Exploration - research into using "frontiers" to exploring unknown territories, from the NCARAI | |
  |   | Little John - a DARPA-sponsored project to develop control and tasking of multiple heterogeneous robots | |
  |   | The Upuaut Project - exploration of the interior of the Pyramid of Cheops, enabled with robotic explorers which climb ropes and wander up air shafts | |
  |   | Cool Robot Project - an exploration in machine learning with simple walking machines at UIUC (OK, we admit, we couldn't resist the name) | |
  |   | Twin Burger - a underwater test bed for intelligent behavior development, from the Univeristy of Tokyo | |
  |   | Biped Walker - an interesting pneumatically-actuated walking machine from theShadow Robot Project | |
  |   | 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) | |
  |   | RoboCup - The world robotic soccer championships, being held this week in Stockholm in conjunction with IJCAI-99 - see the live webcast! | |
  |   | 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 | |
  |   | ERAST - Robotic high-altitude environmental research aircraft developed at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility | |
  |   | MAV - Robotic micro air vehicle under development by the DARPA Tactical Technologies Office | |
  |   | ALSARM - Advanced life support automated robotic manipulator, part of the CELSS research facility at Kennedy Space Center | |
  |   | 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 | |
  |   | 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 | |
  |   | Vision Guided Precision Assembly - CMU Microdynamics Systems Lab project to explore the precision robotic assembly of small, powerful wearable computers | |
  |   | FLL Robot - toy robots in space on STS-96! | |
  |   | MIT Hack - A special selection, in honor of last week's opening of Star Wars, and the robot we all really want to build | |
  |   | Killerhurtz - a winning entry in the BBC Robot Wars series - will Robot Wars be back for real this time? | |
  |   | Pebbles - Pebbles - MIT prototype Mars Planetary Rover, with a novel manipulator powered by series elastic actuators | |
  |   | 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 | |
  |   | 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. | |
  |   | 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). | |
  |   | Entomopter- A very cool mechanical insect, based around Reciprocating Chemical Muscle chemical energy technology to generate wing motion. | |
  |   | PAKY- Surgical robot system from Johns Hopkins University, for Percutaneous Access to the KidneY. | |
  | Neptune- mobile robotics research by DLR, with nice Java demo showing the images seen by the robot during one test. | ||
  |   | Yamabico- a family of mobile robotics research platforms developed at the University of Tsukuba - see the family photo album!. | |
  |   | Biomimetics- Stanford research in biomimetic robots for operation in unstrucutred environments (in particular, see the discussion of prototype manufacturing in the "documents" section). | |
  |   | 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!). | |
  |   | ARC Regional- CNN story about the west coast FIRST Robotics regional competition held last week at the NASA Ames Research Center. | |
  |   | 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). | |
  |   | Marsokhod Field Tests- extended field testing of the Marsokhod planetary rover in the Mojave desert, including live RealMedia updates | |
  |   | HART - Hypobaric Activity Robotic Teleoperator | |
  |   | ACFR Undersea Vehicles- Undersea research vehicles from the University of Sydney, which may someday survey sections of the Great Barrier Reef | |
  |   | Lisa- cognative robotics research testbed utilized by GMD, with extensive links to their research efforts. | |
  |   | Evolving Robotics Behaviours- the Naval Research Lab explores alternative robot behaviors within simulation model to automate the creation of those behaviours. | |
  |   | FIRST- home page for the US FIRST robotics competition, which started this week. | |
  |   | 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