UWA Telerobot
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The UWA telerobot is a historic landmark on the Internet. It was the first remote controllable industrial robot made available for general use on the Internet in 1994. The first robot on the Internet, a plastic toy robot with only 2 degrees of freedom, was placed online by a team under Ken Goldberg at the University of Southern California only three weeks before the UWA team released their website. The USC robot only lasted for a few months. The UWA robot is still operating today, although the original robot was replaced in 1996, and the robot is no longer available for unrestricted public access.
It continues to be the basis for research and group projects undertaken by Mechatronics Engineering students and staff at UWA.
