I love that someone made this! It's not mobile-friendly but I was content to pan and zoom on my phone just to read about some robots. Fun to look at. I remember building a "robot" of the 3-wheeled kit variety at the Pacific Science Center in the 1990s. My kids just built some toothbrush robots at the local library. They certainly occupy a huge and yet curiously ignored part of human consciousness.
“Compurobot”¹ and “George”² were both obviously based on the design of V.I.N.CENT³ from Disney’s 1979 (live action) science fiction movie The Black Hole.
Big Trak is probably the first device I ever programmed. I've got a picture of me as a kid in a plaid shirt squatting on the floor programming my Big Trak. Not much has changed in 35 years.
It's really the most elegant way to transport 4 D batteries and a 9 volt across the living room floor.
For the people struggling to find it: (I did for a few minutes)
I had an Omnibot 2000 as a kid, which you could program motions into and record them onto cassette tape for reply. This taught me a great deal about sensitive dependence on initial conditions!