"PRAMB"
Portable Robotic Arm Mobile Base
2007

System Concept: Howie Choset
Snake Arm: H. Ben Brown, Michael Schwerin
Mobile Base: Gregg Podnar
Welding: Mike Vande Weghe
Search and Rescue system with
Snake Arm, "Woodstock", on packable mobile base.

(Called "BarbieBot".)
Built with anti-static and low-cost materials.

Specifications
Initial Driving Test (1.4M)
Initial Driving Test(Large 40M)


National Science Foundation article depicting BarbieBot at Disaster City, TX, 2011.