7/25/2005 to 8/10/2005
...Field Testing in Greenland. Field reports posted daily. The archive is available here in its full-length, and a day-by-day breakdown begins here.

7/20/2005
...Nearly five months since the last substantive update to this website. Much has happened since then: three finished masters theses, successful autonomous travel of several kilometers, solar powered operation, and the final assembly of the robot. Now we are on the cusp of a three week field testing trip to Greenland. Hopefully, we can post field reports to this website as it happens - maybe even an image or two. Stay tuned, the best is yet to come!

2/26/2005
...This past week saw some impressive work and testing. Carnegie Mellon's Field Robotics Center brought Nomad up for a week of testing autonomous navigation on snow and ice on Lake Mascoma. We brough our own modest robot out to test the same, and also to test the robot's mobility over some rough terrain features. After installing larger tires, we feel quite confident in the robot's ability. Images and video from the testing are in available in the Pictures section.

2/22/2005
...Time has passed, and we are making steady progress. In the last few weeks, we have made extensive forays in snow driving. The Testing Pictures section has some images from recent testing on packed snow. To date, we are able to drive the robot by radio, record or transmit data, and navigate autonomously by GPS. Solar power is still a work in progress, as are a million myriad details.

12/27/2004
Our presentation at the Frontiers Symposium this past September made quite an impression. Subsequently, we were invited to submit that paper to the National Academy of Engineering's periodical, The Bridge. The latest edition, for winter 2005, is currently making the rounds among educators, business leaders, and policy makers. Publications can be found in the Papers section.

11/2/2004
After over a year's worth of design, development, testing, and construction, we finally have a rolling chassis. It still needs to be tethered to a computer, so it is only as smart as the operator at the keyboard, but it does run off battery power and can tackle some obstacles. See more in the Pictures section, which has also been reorganized.

9/6/2004
...Lots new content in the Mission, Papers, and Pictures sections.

9/2/2004
...Incrementally, bit by bit, this site is coming together. Check out the new content in the Mission and Team sections.

8/31/2004
- - -After some planning and finagling, the Cool Robots website has gone live! There is, at the moment, not much content, but that will be added incremetally. Here at least is a teaser.

8/30/2004
...I have changed the html code of the site a bit. It used to be frame-based, so that the top banner was contained in a frame, which was actually a table, and had an image with an href attached to it, blah blah blah. The site has been changed to noframe, and the top banner is now a single image, and the links are worked out using a map. This map-based implementation is copied over to the subpages.

8/27/2004
...At long last, the Cool Robots project has a webpage! It has not gone live just yet, not until some space on the thayer webserver has been allocated. But, in the meantime, it can be accessed locally and offline. It will, of course, stay "Under Construction" for at least another few weeks.

8/26/2004
...This entry was added after the fact, because this section of the website didn't exist on 8/26. This is the date that the first tip-toe footsteps into the Cool Robots webpage were started. The beginning was a frame-based implementation. Using powerpoint and photoshop, I created and carved up the top banner, then inserted the smaller images into a table with their specific links. Much thanks to the CMU hyperion website for inspiration as to the overall layout.