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Fig. 1. A model of the Soviet Lunokhod-1 Moon rover released by the Science Photo Library
Fig. 2. Helpmate, autonomous mobile hospital robots
The team of Ernst Dickmanns at Bundeswehr University Munich built the first robot cars,
driving up to 55 mph on empty streets. The Hughes Research Laboratories demonstrated
the first cross-country map and sensor-based autonomous robotic vehicle. Mark Tilden
invented BEAM robotics. Joseph Engelberger worked with colleagues to design the first
commercially available autonomous mobile hospital robots named Helpmate as shown in
Fig.2. The US Department of Defense funds the MDARS-I project for the Cyber-motion
indoor security robot. Edo Franzi, André Guignard and Francesco Mondada developed
Khepera, an autonomous small mobile robot. Dante I and Dante II as shown in Fig.3,
walking robots used to explore live volcanoes were developed by Carnegie Mellon
University.
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