The Last Decade (Or So) Of MIT Robots

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 8 of December , 2009 at 1:36 am

You may wonder what exactly you pay for here on BotJunkie, so here’s an example… I managed to dig up an old directory listing from MIT’s artificial intelligence laboratory, which has since been absorbed into (or turned into) CSAIL. This directory contains a bunch of different projects ranging from about 1996 through 2004, which is ancient history when it comes to robotics. Many of the subdirectories are empty or broken, but I’ve sorted through it all and pulled out some choice pics of robots from long ago… Click on each picture to go to the antiquated and likely partially broken project page.

Attila, an experimental platform for autonomous planetary exploration

Ant, an experimental microrobot

Boadicea, a pneumatic walking robot

Coco, a fifteen DOF quadruped with gorilla-like proportions

A self-feeding robot, like this or this except eight years ago

And I don’t quite know what to make of this… Or this, for that matter.

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