The Carnegie Mellon Warp1 machine is a systolic array computer developed by H. T. Kung’s group, and used for many applications incuding image processing and mobile robot control [1]. We relate the history of the use of the Warp machine on Navlab and evaluate the Warp machine in light of this experience. As we will demonstrate, the Warp and Navlab projects influenced each other in several ways; this influence led to increased capabilities in the Warp machine and useful applications experience, as well as increased capabilities for Navlab.