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Mabel, The Running Robot
The video here shows Mabel the robot running. When you run you’re feet actually leave the ground and as you can see in this video, so do Mabel’s feet. I can’t imagine this is easy to accomplish in a robot. Mabel is a collaboration between Jessy W Grizzle at the University of Michigan and the [...]
Know Your Roboticist : Heather Knight
Heather Knight is currently a PhD student at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. Before getting to Carnegie Mellon she studied at MIT and even worked at Aldebaran Robotics for a while. She was kind enough to answer a few questions for us for National Robotics Week. RL: When you were at MIT did you get [...]
Robotic Penguin For Girls
Bossa Nova Robotics is a Pittsbrugh based company that has just unleashed two new robots. Like most robotic stuff in Pittsburgh the company has its roots in Carnegie Mellon University. Shown here is Penbo, the robotic penguin, the other robot is called Prime 8 Gorilla and aimed at boys. What can we say. It is [...]
Moon Diggers
Astrobotic Technology, with some help from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon, has created a robot to compete in the The NASA Regolith Excavation Challenge. The challenge will award $500,00 for the robot that can dump the most simulated moon dirt in 30 minutes. Led by Dr. William “Red” Whittaker, Astrobotics main focus is still [...]
Robotic Farmhands
Carnegie Mellon is at it again. This time they want to make robots do all the farm work. Tony Stentz, an engineer from Carnegie Mellon thinks the time is right for such pursuits. Tony worked on Boss, the autonomous vehicle that won DARPA’s Grand Challenge. Tony and other colleagues have outfitted the tractor pictured here [...]