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Toy Robots Initiative Heads: Illah Nourbakhsh and H. Benjamin Brown 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

The Toy Robots Initiative operates under a set of guiding subgoals:

• Excite and inspire public interest in robotics and in science and engineering in general
• Educate users in robotics, engineering and the natural sciences
• Utilize commercial sources of funding for robotics R&D
• Provide a challenging and rewarding work environment for roboticists
• Exploit high-volume manufacturing in the commercial sector to mitigate robotics costs

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Christopher Bartley	Senior Research Programmer	bartley@cmu.edu
	H. Benjamin Brown	Project Scientist	hbb@cs.cmu.edu
	Emily Hamner	Senior Research Associate	etf@andrew.cmu.edu
	Tom Lauwers	PhD Student, RI	tlauwers@andrew.cmu.edu
	Illah Nourbakhsh	Associate Professor	illah@ri.cmu.edu

Current Sub-projects [Past Sub-projects]

Bow Leg Hopper - A novel, single-leg, dynamically stabilized planar robot that efficiently traverses rugged terrains under computer control.	BowGo - We have developed BOWGO (patent pending) - a new kind of pogo stick that bounces higher, farther and more efficiently than conventional devices.
Gyrover - A Single-Wheel, Gyroscopically stabilized Robot	Telepresence Robot Kit - To design, create, and disseminate robotics curricula and technologies that motivate young women and men to actively explore science and technology.
The CMUcam Vision Sensor - We have developed CMUcam - a new low-cost, low-power sensor for mobile robots.	The Personal Rover Project - We have developed the Personal Rover - a 18"x12"x24" highly autonomous, programmable robot.