Token Humanoid Picture

Stairs Climbing stairs Not climbing stairs

Millibots

Quadrotors

Gyrover

Gyrover

2D Bow Leg Hopper

2D Bow Leg Hopper

BowGo I

BowGo I

CMU Autonomous Helicopter Project

radio trans actuators IMU battery guidance computer camera GPS compass

Integrated vision-guided sensing and guidance Auto takeoff, landing, and trajectory following On-board vision for stability and high-level tasks Coupling of inertial and visual sensing for robustness On-board range sensing and 3D mapping Winner 1997 Unmanned Aerial Robotics Competition Deployed in the Canadian arctic for 3D site mapping Development through incremental testbeds since 1991

Automated Harvesting

Commercial Now

Illah Nourbakhsh | CREATE Lab |

Commercial Tomorrow

Illah Nourbakhsh | CREATE Lab |

Hacked Now

Illah Nourbakhsh | CREATE Lab |

Robot 250

Robot250:
Educational Initiatives working with the community to explore how robotics technologies can relate to, and impact, the neighborhoods of Pittsburgh.

Public Events demonstrating our community's creative use of technology and promoting our region's cutting-edge role in the field.
Documentation that will inform the next generation of community-based robotics education.

Pre-festival Impact
545 workshop participants 51 host site educators trained 16 host sites (several now ongoing)
YMCA/YWCA Homewood Andy Warhol Museum C-MITES Mattress Factory Mt. Lebanon Library Falk School Youth Places (3) Carnegie Science Center Brew House Gallery Childrens Museum Manchester Craftsmens Braddock Library Hill House CMA

GigaPan Conversations
foo

GigaPan Conversations
foo

Lessons from Robot 250

The public will come (94,000 visitors in 3 weeks) Community demand significantly exceeds our expectations Some community centers can handle this on their own; others need ongoing direct support. There is a wealth of ongoing need. Per-student runtime cost is well below originally anticipated levels once the technology exists: < $100/pupil rather than ~ $1,000/pupil. Issue-centric inquiry is naturally born in every case traffic; asthma; pollution; education & equity; cultural inquiry

CaLL
expanding the notion of robots citywide