First Autonomous Robot Boards Airplane
May 14th, 2009
May 7, 2009, a day that will go down in history as the day that the first autonomous robot boarded an airplane. LARA (Lego Autonomous Robotic Android) was developed by the RoboBuffs, the robotics team at Charles Milby High School in Houston. On May 7, 2009, LARA flew from Houston to Michigan on Continental Airlines in seat 5A. The team and LARA participated in the Robofest, where she came in 5th place in the exhibition competition.
History my friends. One day robots will board flight all on their own and have equal rights. They will look back at LARA who paved the way.
