Explore Antarctica with Nomad

Follow the daily activities of Nomad, a roving robot searching for meteorites in Antarctica, at the Big Signal interactive Web site, developed by Peter Coppin of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry in Carnegie Mellon’s College of Fine Arts. Check out daily progress reports, obtain background information, learn about telerobotics, and get a hint of what it feels like via Nomad’s sensors to explore a remote location.

Go to: http://www.bigsignal.net/2000/index2.html and http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/projects/meteorobot2000/

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