The Stanford Cart and the CMU Rover

By Hans P. Moravec. 1983

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The AdobeIndoorNav Dataset: Towards Deep Reinforcement Learning based Real-world Indoor Robot Visual Navigation (2018, background): “Robot visual navigation has a long history [15], [16], [17], [18], [19].”
Visual Navigation for Mobile Robots: A Survey (2008, unknown): “[96] Indoor Map building Stereo 3D reconstruction”
Embodied Cognition: A field guide (2003, background): “, Skakey [87], CART [84] and Hilare [47], he comments:”
AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: A Conceptual Taxonomy, Applications and Challenges (2025, unknown): “Similarly, reactive agents in robotics executed sense-act cycles based on fixed control rules, as seen in early autonomous platforms like the Stanford Cart [15].”
Modeling the World from Internet Photo Collections (2008, background): “dimensional image statistics, while Moravec (1983) intro-”
Explorations in Evolutionary Robotics (1993, background): “In designing such systems, it is extremely difficult to foresee all possible interactions with the environment and between separate parts of the robot itself (Brooks, 1991; Moravec, 1983).”
Vision for Mobile Robot Navigation: A Survey (2002, methodology): “From the pioneering robotic vehicle work by Giralt et al. in 1979, [44], and later by Moravec in 1980 and 1983, [107], [108] and Nilsson in 1984, [114], it became clear that, implicitly or explicitly, it was imperative for a vision system meant for navigation to incorporate within it some knowledge…”
A survey on vision-based UAV navigation (2018, methodology): “One of the earliest attempts at the map-building technique using a single camera was carried out by the Stanford CART Robot (Moravec 1983).”