Our robots are small, lightweight, have sophisticated color vision capabilities, and can run autonomously for extended periods of time. Our current projects include extending the visual capabilites of mobile robots, highly faul tolerant place recognition, and integration of cognitive capabilities with visual-motor systems. To read about my robotics work at a more technical level, check my research summary . Virtual environments and communities Recursive solar system from Neverworld. The system dynamically renders 3D scenes within web browsers using the VRML graphics language.
Users can explore rooms and interact with objects and with each other.
It also provides a full modern programming language supporting persistent objects with inheritence, closures and higher order procedures, and first-class continuations. NeverWorld provides a modern programming environment including, interactive compilation and debugging, and hypertext browsing of arbitrary objects including the stacks of running programs. Users can create objects and edit them using an HTML forms-based interface or can interactively edit arbitrary lisp code, run it, trap errors, and debug them with the object browser. NeverWorld is built on top of Scheme48, a highly portable multi-threaded implementation of the Scheme dialect of Lisp written by Jonathan Rees of the University of Sussex and Richard Kelsey of NEC Research. NeverWorld is currently in alpha test.