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Fig. 3. Dante II developed by Carnegie Mellon University
The twin robot vehicles VaMP and VITA-2 of Daimler-Benz and Ernst Dickmanns of
UniBwM drive more than one thousand kilometers on a Paris three-lane highway in
standard heavy traffic at speeds up to 130 km/h.
Fig. 4. Sojourner Rover, NASA
Semi-autonomous ALVINN steered a car coast-to-coast under computer control for all but
about 50 of the 2850 miles. Throttle and brakes, however, were controlled by a human
driver. The Pioneer programmable mobile robot becomes commercially available at an
affordable price, enabling a widespread increase in robotics research and university study
over the next decade as mobile robotics becomes a standard part of the university
curriculum. NASA sends the Mars Pathfinder with its rover Sojourner to Mars as shown in
Fig.4. The rover explores the surface, commanded from earth. Sojourner was equipped with
a hazard avoidance system. Sony introduces Aibo as shown in Fig.5, a robotic dog capable
of seeing, walking and interacting with its environment.
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