The 1994 AAAI Robot-Building Laboratory (RBL-94) was held during the T
welfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The primary goa
l of RBL-94 was to provide those with little or no robotics experience
the opportunity to acquire practical experience in a few days. Thirty
persons, with backgrounds ranging from university professors to pract
itioners from industry, participated in the three-part lab.