Tucker Balch's Robot Photos

Here are pictures of some of the projects I've helped develop and/or worked on. Click on the pictures for an enlargement. More detail on some of these robots is available in my publications.

	The 2001 CMU Hammerheads aka Minnows.
	The 2001 CMU Hammerheads aka Minnows.
	The 2001 CMU Hammerheads aka Minnows.
	The 2001 CMU Hammerheads aka Minnows.
	The 2001 CMU Hammerheads aka Minnows.
	Kevin Sikorski and the Minnows.
	Ashley Stroupe and the Minnows.
	Rosemary Emery and the Minnows.
	Tucker and our ants.
	Zia and our ants.
	My cute wife Maria.
	Rande, Scott and Jim try out a rapidly prototyped robot in the MultiRobot Lab
	Picture of me at AAAI-2000. It was carried by the AP for story about rescue robots. Curiously, I was not involved with the rescue robots. (Harry Cabluck/AP Photo) Read the story. There are some great quotes by Robin Murphy and Alan Schultz.
	Uh oh. Me again. Sorry...
	Talking Lost in Space Robot sez "Danger Will Robinson!"
	Our latest project, the Minnow robot. This is the first of five robots. Visit the website.
	The Perlis Atrium in Newell-Simon Hall, the building I work in.
	Another picture of the atrium.
	Camera for the minnow (2.3mm CS mount lens).
	Cye with new trailer and Henry Thorne for scale.
	An earlier version of the Minnow.
	Henry Thorne, the Cye robot with luxury trailer and Hans Moravec.
	Lewis and Clark. Our multiagent foraging team that won the "Find Life on Mars" task of the AAAI-97 Robot Competition.
	Io, Ganymede and Callisto. Our multiagent trash-collecting team that won the "Clean Up the Office" task of the AAAI-94 Robot Competition.
	LoCoRoBo. A new robot design by Tom Collins and myself. Low-Cost Robust roBot. We're building eight, maybe later we'll be able to build 10s of them for multiagent research.
	Sally and Shannon. Two of our five Nomadics Technologies Nomad 150s. They're equipped with color vision and a gripper for the AAAI-97 Robot Competition. Each robot is controlled by a PC running Linux. They communicate over a wireless TCP/IP network using PPP.
	Callisto sneaks up on an unsuspecting piece of trash.
	LSR-1, a prototype for future a Mars rover developed at JPL, attempts to drive over MFEX, a real Mars Rover (actually this is the flight spare). MFEX is landed on the surface of Mars on July 4th 1997. I helped develop a hazard sensor system for LSR-1.
	Georgia Tech's Mobile Robot family photo: 3 lab-built trash-collectors, two Denning MRV-2s, two Nomadics Technolgies Nomad 150s, one Denning DRV and a Hummer!
	The "Mars Yard" at JPL where LSR-1 was tested.
	Close up of LSR-1. The cameras and lasers for the hazard sensor are suspended from the "solar panel."
	TeamBots