Known to some as “Pearl 2,” Facebot is a very different robot. In fact she was 36 different robots, part of an extensive Human-Robot Interaction study at CMU funded by the National Science Foundation. Continue reading
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SilverJack
A CMU team had developed a robot arm that could deal playing cards and they wanted Mechanimal to explore what a full body robot would look like. Mechanimal developed numerous variations of Jack. Continue reading
Skyworker
Mechanimal was given three days to construct a 3d model of the Skyworker robot, and put together a poster illustration for the Republican National Convention. For the model we also created a new gripper specialized for the truss shape NASA had sent the team at CMU. Continue reading