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Sage This project is no longer active. Head: Illah Nourbakhsh Contact: Illah Nourbakhsh (illah@ri.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: VASC Associated lab/group: CREATE: Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

Sage is a permanent addition of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's Dinosaur Hall exhibit area. Sage is a completely autonomous mobile multimedia exhibit built on top of the XR4000 robot base by Nomadic Technologies, Inc. It wanders Dinosaur Hall on a planned path and provides video and audio enhancements to the exhibits for museum visitors.

Sage navigates using a single color video camera. Artificial landmarks placed in Dinosaur Hall help it orient during its journeys. Sage also avoids all forms of collisions, using 48 sonar sensors, infrared sensors and tactile sensors covering the bottom half of the robot.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Illah Nourbakhsh	Associate Professor	illah@ri.cmu.edu
	Alvaro Soto	PhD Student, RI

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• An Affective Mobile Educator with a Full-time Job
  I. Nourbakhsh, J. Bobenage, S. Grange, R. Lutz, R. Meyer, and A. Soto
  Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 114, No. 1 - 2, October, 1999, pp. 95 - 124.
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