Ullanta Performance Robotics

Street Robotics

We plan to take robots out onto the street for small-scale performances (weather permitting!). This is a roboticist's nightmare - uncertain, dynamic, noisy, dirty - but we believe that through the use of vision and L systems of robots like the Pioneers it is possible to build interesting behaviors robust enough to meet this challenge into a luggable package. We picture a robot act (One person and one robot to start, and hopefully, a second (donations?) in the future, among the jugglers, singers, and puppeteers of Harvard Square or the New York Subway system...

Maintained by Barry Brian Werger... Mail comments!