Acknowledgements

The Robota dolls have been created by Aude Billard with the help of many other creative people. Below are personal acknowledgments.

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I built the first prototype of Robota in my spare time aside doing a PhD thesis at the University of Edinburgh. The mechanics was put together by my ingenious boy-friend, Auke Jan Ijspeert, with my clumsy help. The electronics was developed at the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh by Alexander Colquhun, based on John Hallam's brain brick.

The second prototype of Robota was built at the LAMI (laboratory of MicroInformatics) at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), thanks to the generosity of Jean-Daniel Nicoud, director of the LAMI. The mechanics of the doll was made by Andre Guignard. The main electronic board, Kameleon, is a commercial product developed by K-Team SA

Many thanks to Olivier Carmona, Yuri Lopez de Meneses and Rene Beuchat at the EPFL for their precious help in the long and forebording process of debugging the electronic system for each robot.

I am responsible for the design of all Robota dolls and for the development of their control systems.

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