RA. Robot Archive

Overview

The Christopher G. Atkeson Collection consists of robots, robotics parts and pieces, documentation for projects and software programs, prototypes, and robotics ephemera collected by Dr. Christopher Atkeson over the course of his career. These materials document projects from his professional career across multiple institutions, historic robotics projects at Carnegie Mellon University, and popular culture portrayals of robotics.

Abstract This collection documents the career of Dr. Takeo Kanade, the U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Kanade joined the faculty of CMU in 1980, and later served as director of The Robotics Institute from 1992 to 2001. His research areas include autonomous robots, computer vision, medical robotics, among other topics. The collection mostly includes presentations, publications correspondence, meeting materials, and subject files on miscellaneous topics...