Khepera mobile robot

The Khepera is a small (5.5 cm) differential wheeled mobile robot that was developed at the LAMI laboratory of Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) in the mid 1990s.

Small, fast, and architectured around a Motorola 68331, it has served researchers for 10 years, widely used by over 500 universities[citation needed] worldwide.

The Khepera was sold to a thousand research labs and featured on the cover of the 31 August 2000 issue of Nature.

[2] The Khepera helped in the emergence of evolutionary robotics.

[citation needed] Several extension turrets exist for the Khepera, including: Webots – software that simulates and allows cross-compilation and remote control of the Khepera and other robots

A Khepera III robot at the Georgia Institute of Technology
The first generation Khepera robot released in 1996