If you are a high school student interested in robotics and you live in Portland Metropolitan area,
you can still join one of our groups.
Please contact Marek Perkowski, Doug Hall (chair) or Jady Bates (secretary).
SEIKO ROBOTS
Professor Chien Wern works with the students from his class to fix the Seiko robots.
If you are interested how the industrial robot is constructed and programmed, you
should take his class.
Seiko Robot. The future projects will include using several such robots for fabrication of a walking robot.
POLISHING PROJECT
Rhino robot will be used for polishing aluminum tanks from Freightliner Corporation.
In the next phase we will use larger robots for this and similar projects.
HEXAPOD CENTAUR
This robot has a head from Max kit, torso from Robotix kit and lower body
based on Lynxmotion hexapod. It is done as a collaboration of high school students (mechanical design),
undergraduate students (mechanical design, electronics and low-level
software, and graduate students - high level software).
If you are interested to help, please contact Marianne Grant, Bjorn Chambless, Niwat Waropas
or any of students from Intelligent Robotics class.
More photographs of Hexapod Centaur will come.
MUVAL
Mikhail Pivtoraiko, recipient of Intel grant for top students,
works on MUVAL. He created already new much improved interface for all MUVAL'S limbs.
If you are interested to help, please contact Mikhail Pivtoraiko or Bryce Tucker.
We need a student with artistic talents to build the final
body and skin of the MUVAL - the cosmic creature with 2 legs, 4 hands and a large head
(being now designed by Kimberly Janik).
The early vision of MUVAL from 1998, as shown in Faces of Science.
You can appreciate how many changes has been done to the project. Even more in software!
EASY KITS
There are several new kits from ROBOTIX and other companies.
High school students assemble them and soon will start modifying them for improved communication.
They have already learned LISP and will use this AI language to program the robots.
LITTLE PUPPET THEATRE
Little Puppet Theatre will be a permanent interactive display for visiting
high school students. It will tell you few words about Engineering at PSU.