TRC Labmate

The Labmate platform manufactured by TRC is a typical differential drive mobile robot. It is equipped with a laser range finder that can scan the surrounding environments and detect obstacles.

ActivMedia Pioneer 3-DX Mobile Platform

The ActivMedia Pioneer 3-DX robot is a two-wheel drive intelligent mobile platform equipped with devices for sensing and navigation in a real-world environment, including wheel encoders, and ultrasonic sensors. The circular basis has a diameter of 50 cm and can carry up to 23 Kg. It is mainly conceived for research experiments.

Kuka KR16 Industrial Manipulator

The Kuka KR16 robot is a high performance 6 degree of freedom articulated arm that can carry up to 16 Kg at its end effector. It can be used for typical industrial applications, such as palletizing, laser welding, painting, assembling, part loading and unloading, etc.

Sony AIBO

LEGO Mindstorms

Height Robotics Invention System 2.0 kit are currently used to build a variety of small robots for teaching activities.

CCD Cameras and Frame Grabber

Two high-performance, VGA resolution, Basler digital cameras are connectet to a PC using the Matrox Meteor-II/1394 adapter board and the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL). Currently, one of the two cameras is mounted on the KR16 manipulator, while the other one is used as an ambient camera that acquire images from the robot's workspace.