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Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute

Robotics research division of Carnegie Mellon University, known for autonomous vehicle and field robotics work including the Nomad desert robot.

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Nomad Robot Field Experiment, Atacama Desert

In June 1997, Carnegie Mellon University deployed the Nomad robot in the Atacama Desert, Chile, in a NASA-funded field experiment testing long-range autonomous and teleoperated rover navigation over approximately 220 kilometres of terrain, directly informing future planetary exploration rover design.