{"id":184512,"date":"2004-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/msr-research-item\/the-personal-rover-project-robotics-for-the-masses\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:44:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:44:39","slug":"the-personal-rover-project-robotics-for-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/the-personal-rover-project-robotics-for-the-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Personal Rover Project: Robotics for the Masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>The Personal Rover Project is a comprehensive effort to develop and deploy a low-cost rover platform for diverse environments, including the home. This rover serves as an exploration-centered, creative outlet for children as they shape the rover&#8217;s daily and weekly activities.  We argue that such a personal rover will excite and inspire users about math, science and engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Early project results include the CMUcam2 embedded vision board, a weight-shifting high COM prototype for climbing ledges and educational study results following a 30 student test course, Robotic Autonomy, that has now been taught for two consecutive summers at NASA\/Ames and CMU West.  The newest results include the pilot deployment of the Personal Exploration Rover into top science museums around the country, including the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and the San Francisco Exploratorium.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk I will motivate the Personal Rover Project and will describe our most recent robotic technological results and educational robotics analyses.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see<br \/>\nwww.cs.cmu.edu\/~personalrover\/PER<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nwww.cs.cmu.edu\/~cmucam<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .asset-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Personal Rover Project is a comprehensive effort to develop and deploy a low-cost rover platform for diverse environments, including the home. This rover serves as an exploration-centered, creative outlet for children as they shape the rover&#8217;s daily and weekly activities. 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