Carnegie Mellon University Field Robotics Center
CMU Robotics Institute centre led by William 'Red' Whittaker that built the Ambler and the Dante volcano-exploring walkers for NASA.
- Robot models in the atlas
- 33 machines
- First robot
- 1990Latest 1994
- Headquarters
- PittsburghPennsylvania, USA
- Is it still sold?No longer soldEvery robot is retired or discontinued
- Who uses it?2 robot models in useSampled high-temperature fumarole gases inside Mount Spurr in July 1994, then toppled on…
- What is new?1994-09-01NASA releases Dante's Volcano video
Robots
3 robot models shown in public, from 1990 to 1994. Newest first. Open one for its full profile.
Who uses it
Customers and deployments reported for Carnegie Mellon University Field Robotics Center's robots. Each robot's page links its sources.
Dante II1994 · RetiredSampled high-temperature fumarole gases inside Mount Spurr in July 1994, then toppled on the climb out and was recovered by helicopter.
Dante1992 · RetiredDescended into Mount Erebus crater in 1992 until its communications tether failed and the mission ended early.
What is new
The latest stories about Carnegie Mellon University Field Robotics Center's robots, newest first.
- NASA releases Dante's Volcano video NASA Technical Reports Server · Dante II
- Stuck robot may need human help Tampa Bay Times · Dante II
The company
What it says about itself and what the sources record.
- Headquarters
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Focus
- Field and planetary robots
- Partners
- NASA, NASA JPL
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Other makers of machines, starting with those in United States.
Sources
2 sources behind this page.
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