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Navlab 2
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RetiredSucceeded by Navlab 5 United StatesSupervised

Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute · research vehicle

Navlab 2

A US Army HMMWV converted by CMU for semi-autonomous driving on rough ground and roads.

Price
—research vehicle, not sold
Autonomy
SupervisedHow it runs
Driverless
Not yetSafety driver on board
Fleet
—Not published
Speed
110.0 km/hFaster than 67%
Range
—Not published

Why it matters

A retired vehicle from Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute.

Real-world use

Drove at about 10 km/h off-road and up to about 110 km/h on roads.

Timeline

First shown
1990
Released
Not yet
HMMWV-based Navlab 2 built at Carnegie Mellon

How it drives

Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.

Driverless status
Safety driver on board
Where it runs
Pittsburgh area (research)

How it stacks up

Against other research pioneers that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

Not published by the maker: height, weight, payload, joints, battery, price.

Public attention

A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current vehicles.

  • 259 views of its Wikipedia article in the last 90 days (Navlab)
  • No recent press stories listed yet

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What’s inside

No component details published yet.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.

Lineage

Every Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute vehicle in order.

  1. Navlab 1Navlab 11986Retired
  2. Navlab 2Navlab 21990Retired
  3. Navlab 5Navlab 51995Retired

Made, sold and where

No production or sales figures published yet.

Price
Not publishedresearch vehicle, not sold
How to get one
No official buying page found

Side by side with its peers

Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose

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Sources

Figures come from a published paper. Every link below backs something on this page.

Carnegie Mellon University PANS: A Portable Navigation Platform

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