| Robot | Creator | Description | Final Paper |
Espia
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Miguel Arnedo | Espia will move randomly looking for humans while exhibiting one of two behaviors: 1) Friendly: Will try to move towards the detected human. 2) Attacking: Will localize and shoot them with a disc gun. Additioanlly, Espia will have a wireless video camera. |
Final Espia Report (pdf) |
Thing
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Chung Chov | A robotic hand similar to THING of The Adam's Family. This robot grabs an desired object and pushes away unwanted objects. It rests on a mobile base that allows it to roam around. | Final Thing Report (pdf) |
Aristarchus
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Julio Correa | This robot will operte in an arena and locate a puck. Once the location of the puck is determined. the robot will bring the puck to a specified goal. | Final Report on Aristarchus (pdf) |
SLIK (Salt Laying Ice Killa)
|
Darren Curry | This robot was designed to detect steel rebar beneith driveways and distribute salt to melt ice buildup. |
SLIK Final Paper (pdf) |
Pacbot
|
Mark Gander | The parent robot of a "parent-child" robotic system. This robot will identify "food" (steel spheres) and collect them. |
Final Pacbot Report (pdf) |
Jiggabot
|
Jerone Hammond
 Jerone concentrating... |
A voice activated cleaning robot. This robot will listen for vocal commands and then, upon receiving the appropriate command, clean a specified area. |
Final Jiggabot Report (pdf) |
Philip the "Glass-Bot"
|
Pete Hardman | A robot the searches for glass on the ground. Once found, the robot retrives the glass with a suction cup and deposits it in a safe location. |
Glass-Bot
Final Report (pdf) |
Prometheus I
|
Donald Hasson | An antonomous vehicle that uses and infrared thermometer to determine the high and low temperatures present on a wall. |
Prometheus I Final Paper (pdf) |
Speed Racer
|
Anthony Hinson
 Tony's "portable" (20 lb.) computer... |
An autonomous/teleoperated high speed robotic vehicle with a vision system. | Speed Racer Final Paper (pdf) |
Magellan
|
Nick Ivano | Magellan is an autonomous robot that navigates via GPS and a digital compass to preprogrammed coordinates. |
Magellan Final Paper (pdf) |
Pet Buddy
|
David Martin | This robot is an interactive pet toy. It will interact with an animal and provide entertainement. | Pet Buddy Final Report (pdf) |
LED Bot
|
Dhval Patel | An interactive entertaining robot that communicates its mood with LEDs. | LED Bot Final Paper (pdf) |
Grafittibot
|
Joshua Phillips | An autonomous robot that navigates without feedback by using stepper motors. This robot was programmed to write phrases with a marker. | Final Paper (pdf) |
MIA
|
Thanida Phoonpirom | A house keeping robot that cleans an area using a piece of cloth, detects small peices of metal, detects heat, and movement. | MIA Final Paper (pdf) |
Gopher
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David Rea | A table wandering robot that cleans and collects objects. Uses a laser for object detection. | Gopher Final Paper (pdf) |
Thief
|
Uriel Rodriguez | A robot that can detect dark areas in a room and hide small objects. | Thief Final Paper (pdf) |
Smallbot
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Sean-Paul Verdes | A small robot kit with an added accelerometer to determine its rate of falling. | Final Report (pdf) |