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 Watch where you step! New Bot Roams ECE Basement

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A new generation of Lobot can be seen in ECE's lower level now that Lobot Jr., Version 3.0, has been unveiled. On May 12, Mike Majedi, Mark Ziegler, Harsha Mangalore and Carl Raffa put the young bot through its paces down in L217.

Lobot Jr., version 3.0 makes its debut [photo album]

The project team has added a Xilinx microprocessor that communicates with the existing Javelin chip via a hard-wired connection. The team also made the dual-chip Wireless platform more modular to increase the robot's functions and scalability.

This new version of Lobot Jr. can now also communicate with a network of mobile robots via a wireless transceiver. And programmable logic takes Lobot Jr. to its next generation, allowing increased flexibility and intelligence for future projects executed on the platform.

Lobot Jr. is used for ECE student projects, research on intelligent distributed multiagent robotic systems, and K-12 outreach. The project faculty advisor is Dr. Nader Vadiee. See the IDMARS (Robotics) Lab's Web site at http://pursue.unm.edu/robotics.