A Different Kind of Robotics Project

[Andrew Remmers]

Hey Guys!

I am currently working on a new project with a fellow student, and we finally got our website up! Even though its pretty basic right now we are working on setting up a gallery and such!

http://networkbot.wordpress.com/

This robot is the brain child of Chris Willingham. He came to me one day and explained this idea of a robot that would be controlled through the internet! I loved the idea and having some free time made a quick robot base, from that point on we have decided that we are going to try to build it and hopefully market it at some point.

Design changes are in our near future as we have figured out better ways for construction, and have some functions we want to add.

Currently the robot has a kiwi drive on a "unibody" nonagon chassis
The Robot will also feature a small telescoping arm, this will allow the user to adjust the level of the netbook on the top of the arm to eye level with different users.

Features we would like to add in the future:

- Universal Charging Docks
- Kinect 3D mapping
- Opening/closing doors which might also be used to manipulate objects depending on design

Comments, Questions and Concerns are appreciated!

- Andrew

P.S. I know its not the best resolution picture, but here is a picture of the base