The Rochester Robot

Abstract
The Rochester Robot is a unique design that was built to study the use of real-time vision in cognition and movement. The major feature of the robot is the robot head. The head consists of binocular cameras that can be moved at over 400 degrees per second. During rapid movements visual data can be analyzed with a pipeline processor and used to control the motion of a body. The body is a PUMA 761 six degree-of-freedom arm which has a two meter radius workspace and a top speed of about 100 cm/second. These features combine to give the robot the capability of reacting to features in its environment in complicated ways in real time. Keywords: Tracking, Neural net computations, Active vision, Animate vision, Robot vision, Kinetic depth.