University of Parma · research vehicle
ARGO
A modified Lancia Thema that steered using two low-cost cameras and stereo vision running on an ordinary 200 MHz Pentium PC.
- Price
- —research vehicle, not sold
- Autonomy
- SupervisedHow it runs
- Driverless
- Not yetSafety driver on board
- Fleet
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Range
- —Not published
Why it matters
Its 1998 'MilleMiglia in Automatico' tour covered about 1,900-2,000 km of Italian roads in six days, driving automatically about 94% of the time.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
University of ParmaCompanyHow 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
- Northern Italy (1998 tour)
- Rides, miles or loads
- About 2,000 km on Italian public roads in June 1998 (Broggi, Bertozzi and Fascioli, 1999).
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current vehicles.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 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.
From the maker
ARGO is the only vehicle from University of Parma (Alberto Broggi's group, later VisLab) in the atlas.
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
| Measure | ARGOUniversity of Parma (Alberto Broggi's group, later VisLab) |  Navlab 5Carnegie Mellon University Robotics InstituteSame job: research · Both on wheels · Both past robots | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useVITA-2Daimler-Benz (EUREKA PROMETHEUS)Same job: research · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  VaMPBundeswehr University Munich with Mercedes-Benz (EUREKA PROMETHEUS)Same job: research · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
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| First shown | 1998 | 1995-07 | 1994-10 | 1994-10 |
| Status | Retired | Retired | Retired | Retired |
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| Speed | — | — | 130 km/h | 175 km/h |
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Sources
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