Robopot, the first Ibizan robot

If you look at the photo with this news, you may think that the Robopot is not much to talk about. But this machine is able to identify obstacles and when the project is finished, the robot will be able to clean or transport objects in industrial areas.

Robopot is the fruit of work by the Ibizan doctor and engineer in telecommunications, Josep Maria Mirats, who has been working for five years in the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial in Barcelona (you can still see his old curriculum on this web page), but he has come back to Eivissa to work for the Consell.

In his free time, for months (and he still has half a year's work left) he has been creating this robot. Robopot works with two connected computers. The first works the wheels moving the robot, while the second has awareness of surroundings and observes it, to see where to send Robopot. The "eyes" of this machine are four infrared sensors.

Pere Marí
coordinador@eivissaweb.com

Photo © BalearWeb: Josep Maria Mirats and the robot

Date of publication: 22/01/2003

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