Retired Robots
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Some of the Older Mobile Robot Research at the MIT AI Laboratory

Frankie

A robot that combined high reliability, ultra low cost, and a wide range of capabilities.

Toto

A robot that explores unknown office environments, constructs maps, and navigates.

Herbert

A reactive-based robot that collects soda cans, sometimes.

Allen

The Mobot Lab's first mobile robot.

TJ

A robot that can be taught the names and locations of places in simple typewritten English, then answer questions about them and navigate to them as requested in real time.

Last update: 9 February 1998