John Seybold of Rochester was part of the winning collegiate design team that took first place in the 2012 RIT Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineering student design contest.
Seybold is a fifth-year computer engineering student in Rochester Institute of Technology's Kate Gleason College of Engineering.
The seven-member student team designed and built a 31-inch autonomous humanoid robot platform nicknamed "TigerBot" for their senior design project. The humanoid is scaled to a human model and has the ability to mimic human movement and behavior.
The innovative robot went beyond the requirements for the senior design project with autonomous and wireless control, object avoidance, environmental interaction, camera vision, voice control and has the ability to balance.
The design competition took place at on May 5 during the university's annual Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. Team members include Kyle Backer of Oswego, Jonathan Cormier of North Hero, Vt., Matthew DeCapua of Essex Junction, Vt., Jeremy Jensen of Penn Yan, Michael Thomas of North Easton, Mass. and Eric Walkama of Newington, Conn.
John Seybold of Rochester was part of the winning collegiate design team that took first place in the 2012 RIT Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineering student design contest.
Seybold is a fifth-year computer engineering student in Rochester Institute of Technology's Kate Gleason College of Engineering.
The seven-member student team designed and built a 31-inch autonomous humanoid robot platform nicknamed "TigerBot" for their senior design project. The humanoid is scaled to a human model and has the ability to mimic human movement and behavior.
The innovative robot went beyond the requirements for the senior design project with autonomous and wireless control, object avoidance, environmental interaction, camera vision, voice control and has the ability to balance.
The design competition took place at on May 5 during the university's annual Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. Team members include Kyle Backer of Oswego, Jonathan Cormier of North Hero, Vt., Matthew DeCapua of Essex Junction, Vt., Jeremy Jensen of Penn Yan, Michael Thomas of North Easton, Mass. and Eric Walkama of Newington, Conn.
