Klahr at Carnegie Mellon University adopted the Big Trak as a research vehicle for the study of Instructionless learning, Scientific discovery, View application, Cognitive development, and Dual Space Search. Reception Games magazine included Big Trak in their "Top 100 Games of 1981", finding it a "great challenge is to program Big Trak to run through an obstacle course, without pacing off the distances". See also Lego Mindstorms NXT Omnibot RoboSapien – a remote-programmable humanoid robot Roomba References External Zeon Ltd's new Bigtrack a BIGTRAK hobbyist Page Original instruction manual (PDF) Original operators manual (full colour navigable pdf) Transport instruction manual (PDF) Robot Room – Inside the Bigtrak Big Trak decals 1970s toys 1980s toys 1979 robots Toy robots Hobbyist robots Six-wheeled robots Robots of the United States