Heather Knight - Engineer

Heather Knight

ENGINEER

I like robots.

PROJECTS

Zanahoria Analog Bunny Rabbit that chases a human-controlled, IR-emitting carrot. Senior Project.
Spring 2006

The Huggable Briefly worked on sensor circuit board layout and design for an therapuetic robot teddy bear will full body sensate touch.
Fall 2005

Trisk Mechanical head design for cognitive robot to be used in grounded machine language research. For Cogniative Machine Group of the MIT Media Lab.

RoCo Roco is a five degree-of-freedom Robotic Computer. The actuated monitor mimics headlike movements and forms part of Robotic Life's Learning Companion research. Principle designer.
June-September 2004

Robotic Flowers Responsive Robotic Sculpture installed in Cooper-Hewitt/Smithsonian National Design Museum. Mechanical design for the copper flower as part of a four person team from the MIT Media Lab.
April 2003 - January 2004

Plasma Globe Array Array of home-made Plasma Globes and attendent power supplies originally designed to modulate to music. It was the final project for an Analog Electronics class. High voltage, zzzzvt!
Spring 2003
Jumping Robot My entry to the department's annual Mechanical Design Competition. Pre-loaded jumping mechanism didn't work exactly as planned come competition day, but still a lot of fun. No pictures available.
Spring 2003
Interactive Tubeworms Robots inspired by their namesake sea-creatures with fiberoptic tentacles equiped with capacitive sensors that sense a person's proximity. Part of the Media Lab's Public Anemone exhibit at SIGGRAPH 2002. Assistant Designer.
Summer 2002

Hulla Hoop Man Hula hooping paper creation inspired by an old sewing machine table. Okay, clearly short of materials and tools in Hamburg.
April 2004

Semi-Circular Couch Playing with shapes in my first green-velvet furniture creation. Hopefully, I'll actually take pictures of it someday.
Summer 2002

Murals Murals I created in my room at No6.
Spring and Summer of 2002

Mission 2005 See the theoretical plans for Mission 2005's Unmanned Robotics, part of 40-person theoretical research project for designing a manned underwater research station by the Edmond Hydrothermal Vent System. Researcher in the unmanned robotics group and one of the class webmasters.
Fall 2001

Last Update: January 26, 2005

HEATHER HOME

Zanahoria	Analog Bunny Rabbit that chases a human-controlled, IR-emitting carrot. Senior Project. Spring 2006
The Huggable	Briefly worked on sensor circuit board layout and design for an therapuetic robot teddy bear will full body sensate touch. Fall 2005
Trisk	Mechanical head design for cognitive robot to be used in grounded machine language research. For Cogniative Machine Group of the MIT Media Lab.
RoCo	Roco is a five degree-of-freedom Robotic Computer. The actuated monitor mimics headlike movements and forms part of Robotic Life's Learning Companion research. Principle designer. June-September 2004
Robotic Flowers	Responsive Robotic Sculpture installed in Cooper-Hewitt/Smithsonian National Design Museum. Mechanical design for the copper flower as part of a four person team from the MIT Media Lab. April 2003 - January 2004
Plasma Globe Array	Array of home-made Plasma Globes and attendent power supplies originally designed to modulate to music. It was the final project for an Analog Electronics class. High voltage, zzzzvt! Spring 2003
Jumping Robot	My entry to the department's annual Mechanical Design Competition. Pre-loaded jumping mechanism didn't work exactly as planned come competition day, but still a lot of fun. No pictures available. Spring 2003
Interactive Tubeworms	Robots inspired by their namesake sea-creatures with fiberoptic tentacles equiped with capacitive sensors that sense a person's proximity. Part of the Media Lab's Public Anemone exhibit at SIGGRAPH 2002. Assistant Designer. Summer 2002
Hulla Hoop Man	Hula hooping paper creation inspired by an old sewing machine table. Okay, clearly short of materials and tools in Hamburg. April 2004
Semi-Circular Couch	Playing with shapes in my first green-velvet furniture creation. Hopefully, I'll actually take pictures of it someday. Summer 2002
Murals	Murals I created in my room at No6. Spring and Summer of 2002
Mission 2005	See the theoretical plans for Mission 2005's Unmanned Robotics, part of 40-person theoretical research project for designing a manned underwater research station by the Edmond Hydrothermal Vent System. Researcher in the unmanned robotics group and one of the class webmasters. Fall 2001