It was designed and built in 1993 by a team of graduate students in computer science and robotics. It has been in continual use since that time, logging nearly 250 kilometers of autonomous navigation. Xavier was the first autonomous mobile robot that could be commanded over the World Wide Web, and has attracted thousands of visitors to its Web site over the past five years. Nomad Nomad has performed autonomous discovery of Antarctic meteorites and on-site automatic classification of rock samples. Developed by the Robotics Institute , it assists human researchers in the harsh Antarctic environment, working full-day cycles in the deep cold.
Nomad can detect surface meteorites obscured to the human eye by blowing or drifting snow.
Nomad has traveled to locations on Earth similar to an extraterrestrial world, including Chile's Atacama Desert, where it was teleoperated by researchers in Pittsburgh and at NASA's Ames Research Center. Minnow Minnow is one of several soccer-playing robots developed by Carnegie Mellon's MultiRobot Lab . These robots function together in teams to perform complex tasks in dynamic and uncertain environments. They solve problems by learning from feedback and previous experience. Each year, the robots participate in the RoboCup international soccer competition.