- Smart Solar Cart solves both local & global problems. Winner of 1998 "Best of Austin" Award (Critic's Choice/High Tech Category/Austin Chronicle). This work is part of a broad advanced nomadics effort.

- a 75 ton, 18 foot tall arch spanning the hike and bike trail on Town Lake (City Of Austin) made of five gigantic limestone blocks with extensive carving honoring Mexican-American culture. Winner of 1998 "Best of Austin" Award (Critic's Choice/Architecture Category/Austin Chronicle)

- Two Flying Humanoids successfully tested over downtown Austin, June 5, '99. Sponsored by the Austin Museum of Art's Robots Live! program.

- Selected in juried competition to create monumental sculpture and robot blimps for Austin's New Airport.

- Chosen as a Robot Group artist/technologist whose work exemplifies the spirit of Leonardo da Vinci for "Leonardo Special" that premiered the fall '93 season of The Discovery Channel.

- Design/build of monumental Gates of Paradise at City of Austin Botanical/Cretaceous Gardens.

- Good Morning America featured Santos' flying sculpture, Bipedal Ornithopter, a robotic flying machine that runs on two legs and takes off with flapping wings, at the Omni Hotel atrium, summer of '93.

- Design/build of major multimedia sculpture (kinematic, sound, and light) as the centerpiece of an exhibition funded by the National Science Foundation and U.S. Dept. of Energy for a 3 year national museum tour.

- Webmaster of PolyCosmos, host to many cool sites.

- Founder of ALTA (Austin League of Tejano Artists), a community arts outreach organization specializing in murals, sculpture, and cybermedia.

- Number one rated artist (with Joe Perez) of all cultural funding applicants by Austin Arts Commission Visual Arts peer panel for funding year '92-'93.

- 1989 Excellence Award from Mayor and Design Commission for Cyclone, a hand carved stone wall lampooning Texas politics in the Omni Hotel, Austin Centre.

- Winner of Austin's only architectural competition in memory, to design and build a replacement steel gazebo with stone carving at a cherished city landmark, Neff Point by Barton Springs, in Zilker Park. Project recently completed. Stone pending installation.

- Director, Big Rock/Robotic Tower, a twenty ton hand carved megalith with a computer controlled interactive wind/solar tower on top. 2 blks east of the Capitol building in Waterloo Park; on going, currently pending installation of upper section. Winner of 1998 "Best of Austin" Award (Critic's Choice/Architecture Category/Austin Chronicle)

- Misc. Awards: -Community Service; Mayor and City Council for Murals, Meadowbrook Community (Austin's largest public housing project), 1987; - Montopolis Neighborhood Association, Murals 1989; - League of United Chicano Artists, Murals 1989; - Volunteer Award, Discovery Hall 1990.

- Artist: Austin 150th Birthday Mural, 7th and Neches commissioned by the city of Austin 150 Commission, 20x50 feet, '89. While this is Santos' best known wall. He's painted over a hundred murals, mostly on Austin's South and East sides and in Mexico City and Chiapas.

- Founder of JumpStart educational outreach group. Developer of JumpStart Science curriculum for the Children's Museum and area schools. Low cost super intensive hands on activities for the new millenia. The culmination of 12 years in Austin Eastside elementary schools.

- Fireball, a family hearth near Dallas.

- Founding member of the Robot Group (dubbed the group's "godfather" first by Newsweek (then the Austin Chronicle and Austin American Statesman)). Creator of RoboFest an annual Austin technology arts festival, now in its eighth year. Coordinator Robofest 1 and 2.

- Founder of Austin CAT (Civic Architecture Team), an organization consisting of Austin architectural artisans working towards a renaissance in the local built environment.

- Invited lecturer at MCC, UT, area corporations, schools, museums, etc. on the subject of cutting edge robot technology.

INVENTIONS/TECHNICAL RESEARCH

- High Performance Micro-Airship.

- Bipedal Ornithopter- runs on two legs , flaps wings to take off for extended flight; Extensive coverage on Discovery Channel, Newsweek, and Good Morning America.

- Flying Sphere- an aerodynamically sophisticated UFO like aircraft, first flown spring '93 ;

- Powered boomerangs, Rocket Frisbee, Flying Amoeba, snake locomotion vehicle; high entropy engines, etc.;

- Sailboat that goes directly into wind; - Rain powered vehicle - rolls along merrily in a good rain; wave powered boats; faster than the wind downwind prototypes

- Varmint, a four legged walking talking machine requested for collection by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History;

- Critter, a wind and solar powered 1984 hexapod.

- Present work: Development of the ProtoAndroid humanoid robot/agent with a cutting edge software architecture incorporating a large knowledge base, system integration software, artificial personae, and advanced kinematics.