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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.

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

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Christopher Bartley - Senior Research Programmer <bartley@cmu.edu>
• [Home] 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>
• [Home] Illah Nourbakhsh - Associate Professor <illah@ri.cmu.edu>

• 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.