Special Projects
Centibots 100-Robot Collaborative Reconnaissance Project
SRI Primary Contractor / MobileRobots Inc. Subcontractor
DARPA Software for Distributed Robotics Program
In 2004, SRI's
Aritificial Intelligence Center Centibots team employed 100 MobileRobots
robots -- 20
Pioneer 3-AT's and 80 modified AmigoBots -- in collaborative systems for
reconnaissance
mapping.
More.
MobileRobots Inc. Independence-Enhancing Wheelchair (IEW)
NIH SBIR 2 R44 HD041781-02
PI: Dr. William P. Kennedy
MobileRobots
Inc, in conjunction with Crotched Mountain Rehabiliatation Center, Greenfield, NH built and tested a wheelchair
that can be operated successfully by anyone able to
interface with a personal computer. Three customizable levels of
autonomy provide assistance to users with different abilities safely and on demand with
redundant sensing envelopes backed by protective software layers.