I am back at Carnegie Mellon University for the 2009 summer. This summer I have taken away from the design aspects and now I am onto the programming part now. This summer I have to created a program to demo for IJCAI in California. I have chosen to get the robot dance to give it a personally at the conference.The type of dance I am trying to get it to do is called the “Stanky Leg".The main problem that I have been running into while trying to get the chiara to do the dance is the limits of the robot its self. To solve this problem with the limits of the chiara was to create a more simple Behavior to have it do, while look good plus to keep the robot from killing its self. So I am back for the second year in a row to work on the Chiara for the summer.

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

How do you upload a picture onto your profile? I’ve been looking, but maybe I missed it.

Thanks for the help!