Charlston Manning's blog

This year at my first AAAI confernce in Chicago. The robot I have been working on this summer at CMU took second place. This was my first AAAI confernce and I learn a lot from being around other PH.D student and even some undergrads. This confernce to me seem like it was center on creativly in the robotics community. Also had a little networking while I was there with other professor that can help me get into a great grad school.I am hoping to attend it next year and have another robot to work on.

As i approach the end of my intern at CMU I have completed one Chiara robot named Cayenne. This one was the one I started on when I first arrive at CMU in June. I had redesign this robot to become more efficient . Now we have came the end of this intern cover to show the finish Chiara Cayenne robot

I was also given the Chiara robot project named Aurora. This is the same robot in the Chiara class but with one modification to the legs as showed

This robot was going to be build by me then both will the presented AAAI conference in Chicago starting July 13th to July 18th. It has been a great experience here at CMU build this robot

This is me creating a new part for the robot on the Lathe. Which is a milling tool that can cut off and drill holes into materal

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For the past few weeks. Me, my advisor David Touretzky and Ethan Tira-Thompson have been design a robot that will be produce.While building this robot I see that it is a cross between a carb and spider. Now I am here to show the near final stage of design, but is still a work in progress. Using Solidworks to design the new parts for the robot and then cutting out these parts on a laser cutting machine.

This is the final copy of the robot camera mount.

This is three different pieces

After resent discover of Solidworks I have found myself enjoy the overall program compare to Auto CAD it is a great deal better. After take a course in Auto CAD at Morehouse College it seems impossible to design anything on any CAD program. Now I came to CMU to design a robot using only a new program called Solidworks. I was learning by using Tutorials the program offer. After going a week I have been able to design new things for the robot I am working on.

How has everyone time at Carnegie Mellon been including dorms and meeting neew people. Plus how is Pittsburgh city life to you.

I am at CMU now learning a new program called Solidworks. Can anyone help me further