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The three rules of robotics

1. A robot may not injure a human being, or , through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Isaac Asimov's

My Past Robotic Projects.

By Dan Mathias

UPDATED 9-30-2011




Built in 1985 Robot George, it's 25 years old my first big robot and 40 inches tall, and weights 110 lbs, has one Pentium III - 600 MHz Lap-Top, with 128 meg ram and 20 Gig ide hard drive, sound blaster voice input, voice syntheses and image processing and control with Linux software that is in the works, it's arms can lift over 60lbs at the wrist and can move at about 3 miles per hour, it is made of , aluminum, wood and plastic construction, 12 volt Lead Acid powered.

Google Moon Rover Project.
Now all I need is $500 million dollors to get it there to the moon.


A new robot platform for a Mars or Moon type remote controlled rover using left over parts in the shop.
Will have 3 video cameras, 2 stereo and 1 on the robot arm. 5 stepper motor robotic arm, 800 MHz Mini ITX computer, 12 volt lithium batteries and solar power..

Photo 1 and 2


Robot arm will be able to pick up rocks and other objects in 3rd camera.

Photo 3


Working on adding a Track mechanism for better traction and mobility

Project has been discontinued, sorry, not feasible to get to the moon, NO money for it.


Built in the mid 1990's P.V.C.- RoBot. tmAn air powered 6 legged robot platform this Robot is made of PVC pipe and fittings with 68HC11 control.


Built in 2005 EPOXY BOT was for Ebay sales tm


EPOXY BOT, is an robotic platform using the PIC microcontroller with bread board and with continous rotation servo drive motors. Made of aluminum and NO screws, all Epoxies together. Together.


Built in the late 1990's the P - Bot tm


The P - BOT, is an robotic platform using the P-Brain 68HC811 unipolor stepper motors for the main drive, and is contructed out of fiberglass and wood.


The Floppy-Bot was for a magazine article tm
Floppy-Bot bottom
Robot made from a IBM tandon floppy disk drive


Built in the 1990's HC11-Bot tm A 68hc811 for brains Robot, single chip RS-232 programing from your PC.


Built in the 1980's Cyclops Bot One eye remote controlled robot, with channel 3 TV transmitter, dual 6 volt batterys, dual gear motors..


Built in the 1980's 4 x 4 Bot tm 8749 processor controller robot platform.

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UPDATED 09-17-2011

Built in the late 1980's for college REAGAN my 6 legged Walking Robot is
named after my favorate president Ronald Reagan.



Top photo from the 1980's.
A 6 legged walking robot called Reagan built in the late 1980's and modernized today in 2009.
Named after one of my favorite president Ronald Reagan of the 1980's
- has a Pentium 4 - 1 Ghz mother board, 250 Gig HD, 24 volt solar panel, dual right angle PM gear motors,
Color Plasma display, dual Video capture boards, Dual color CCD cameras,
speed about 2 to 3 Miles per hour, dual 12 volt lead battery's, 4 Kodak sonars sensors.

Almost ready to walk. Has thin plastic keyboard, stereo cameras, Speaker and 3 Kodak sonars.

Rear view of robot with vent fans and solar cell top panel.

2 fiberglass shells make up the 6 Pak bot that will be forsale soon on website.

Pentium 4 - 1 Ghz mother board on bench with 9 inch Plasma screen

Upper fiberglass shell for robot.

Upper fiberglass shell with aluminum mother board chassis.

Inside gear motors and 12 volt H-Bridge drive board from Motorola data book.

Right angle gear motors 12 to 24 volts about 2 to 4 rpm, very powerfull.

Bottom aluminum panel.

12 volt H-Bridge drive board and Kodak sonar boards from SX 70 cameras.
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