NOMAD PHOTO GALLERY
Pictures of Nomad and the crew in the desert

UI engineers develop virtual reality for NASA robots (to allow kids to cruise a Chilean desert with a $1M 4-wheeler)
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UI engineers build software for robot
Trips to moon, Mars likely after Atacama, Antarctica
By Sam Chege Mwangi
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Saturday, June 14, 1997

U of I engineers develop virtual reality for NASA robot
Community News Advertiser
Wednesday, June 25, 1997

UI guides Nomad through desert terrain
A group of UI engineers have helped children do the steering in gathering new geological data.
By Nathan Hill
The Daily Iowan
July 1, 1997

Students to help test robot likely to be used in Mars Mission
By Sam Chege Mwangi
Iowa City Press-Citizen
July 19, 1997

Students help a different kind of 'Nomad'
UI engineering majors return from the desert after helping out a wandering robot
By Nathan Hill
The Daily Iowan
August 28, 1997

The Atacama Desert Trek
A Collaborative Project with
The University of Iowa's GROK Lab
Carnegie Mellon University, and
The NASA Ames Intelligent Mechanisms Group

The Nomad Telepresent Interface
GROK Lab