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Robots that Manipulate
The Mercury
Project
The first Internet robot (September 1, 1994- March 31, 1995).
Allowed web users to remotely control an IBM robot to view and excavate
buried objects via bursts of compressed air.
Developed at the University of Southern California for the Mosaic web browser.
An archive of the site includes background, milestones, and operator logs.
Mercury Project Interface
Australia's
Telerobot on the Web
The University of Western Australia's telerobot went online in late
Sept 1994.
In Ken Taylor, Barney Dalton and team's telerobot,
users shift, construct, and destruct blocks on a gridded table.
The arm is moved through numerical coordinates, and is nuanced enough
to include spin and tilt (in addition to the x,y,x plane). The robot's
movements may be viewed through four different camera vantages (with zoom,
image quality, and size also under the user's control), and users may choose
from a variety of interfaces or even design their own. Registered
users have priority access to the Questacon robot, though I 've never had
any difficulty logging on as a guest. The site offers a valuable
tutorial, telerobotic chatroom, movable web cam of the laboratory,
and in the Hall of Fame users may view extraordinary tele-architectural
feats .
From the Hall of Fame
One camera angle
View of robot
More Online Robots
Book on Internet Telerobots
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