ARM will enable autonomous mobile manipulation systems to surpass the performance level of remote manipulation systems that are controlled directly by a human operator. RE2, Inc contracted Mechanimal to create the cover anatomy – and personality – for the ARM platform. Continue reading
Research
Facebot
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
Servo
In mid 2000 a bold venture was underway to develop a full bodied commercial robot. Servo was designed in just a few weeks – then an unknown number of prototypes were built, at least one of which may have made it back into academia as a research platform. Continue reading
Pearl
Our first robot! Continue reading
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
Cepstral LLC
Concept development for text-to-speech company Cepstral LLC. Continue reading