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Past projects, Reid Simmons

• Ambler - We are developing the Ambler, a six-legged walking robot that addresses the challenges of exploring rugged terrains, acquiring samples, and avoiding dangerous situations.
• Amelia - An improved Xavier
• Autonomous Rover Technologies - Pursuing breakthroughs and insights into fundamental aspects of robot perception, navigation, position estimation, and integrated exploratory science from a robot.
• Federation of Intelligent Robotic Explorers Project - We are investigating and understanding fundamental issues in heterogeneous multi-robot coordination.
• Lunar Rover Initiative - first interactive space exploration event
• Mercator - Cooperative Multi-Robot Mapping and Planning
• Meta Level Planning - Meta-level reasoning for autonomous indoor and outdoor mobile robots.
• Personal Robotic Assistants For The Elderly - Pearl will help researchers explore the ways autonomous mobile robots can help the elderly live independently in their own homes.
• Robotic All Terrain Lunar Exploration Rover - Ratler is a battery-powered, four-wheeled, skid-steered vehicle used as a testbed to develop the remote driving techniques needed for a lunar mission.
• Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search - Developing robots to search for meteorites in Antarctica, as an analog of a planetary exploration robot.
• Vikia - We are developing a robot who has personality and with whom it is easy to communicate.