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Alan Touring, the Campus Tourbot

The Campus Tourbot at a demonstration in the Stata Center in early January 2007. Team members (Left to Right) Behram Mistree, Collin Johnson, Patrick Barragan, Will Bosworth

Alan Touring, the Campus Tourbot, is a robotic tour guide for the MIT campus. Public tours are planned for the spring of 2008. This student-run project is advised by Professor Seth Teller and primarily funded by an MIT/Microsoft Alliance iCampus grant, received in December 2005.

Collin is going to be working on Tourbot for his Master of Engineering thesis. To see what his thesis work entails, check out his Thesis Proposal

• For a basic overview of the project: Meet Alan Touring
• Meet the Tourbot team: Members
• View detailed parts and module level: Design
• Pictures and videos of the robot: Media
• Status of the robot: Progress
• Documentation for the robot: Documentation