March 2008 Archives

This week we released designs for mechanical breadboards of all the system components (base, torso, arms, forearms, hands, and sensor head) to manufacturing. Getting components made will take about a month, so we'll have more mechanical components coming in throughout April. These are the tests to make sure all the subsystems are ready for us to build up an Alpha run of complete robots in June.

We have the base up and running! Motor drivers are having some reliability issues, but we were able to get a full system together for a couple of hours. The system includes the real battery system, computers, 4 casters, and a laser range finder.