Photos: Rolling robots at RoboBusiness
Players large and small in the robotics industry descend on Boston with some their spiffiest gadgetry to put on display.
Segway Robotic Mobility Platform
This is the Robotic Mobility Platform from Segway, best-known for its iconic two-wheeled Human Transporter. The Segway RMP, which uses the same components, features an electric motor that runs at 2 horsepower for sustained use and can peak at 4 to 5 horsepower. It can range up to 15 miles and carry a 400-pound payload. The RMP 400 here is outfitted with a spray nozzle for firefighting duty.
AGT Marcbot IV-M
AGT operator control units
FIRST robot
WPI robot
In the robot pictured here, infrared sensors (on the green rectangle at top right) swivel back and forth and communicate with a host computer to plot out a real-time route.
Gears-Ed Surface Mobility Platform
GearsEd iRobot Create
Foster-Miller MAARS
Foster-Miller Talon
Foster-Miller operator control unit
iRobot SUGV
See also from this week: "Photos: The robot designs of iRobot"