1996 : Xavier "takes instructions from the World Wide Web!" and Reid Simmons @cmurobotics

Uploaded October 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

More 40th Anniversary goodness from the Robotics Institute at CMU archives and courtesy of local news KDKA.

Reid Simmons' birthday is being celebrated during our event on October 25, 2019 and this video from 1996 features Reid and one of our classic bots, Xavier.

It also shows just how new the Web was in 1996 to everyday people - the World Wide Web! - and how large CRT monitors used to be.

1996 : Xavier takes instructions from the World Wide Web! and Reid Simmons

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