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		Knight Gets “Medieval” on Robot Combat League February 15, 2013. Heather Knight is accustomed to working with a 2-foot-tall, plastic-bodied humanoid robot named Data, a robot comedian that is part of her research on social robotics. As a contestant on a new Syfy series, however, she controls a much different beast: an 8-foot-tall fighting robot called Medieval. Made of steel and chain mail and brandishing a shield, Medieval is one of 12 robots built especially for Robot Combat League, which premieres at 10 p.m. ET on Feb. 26.
		Roboticists don't speak in bleeps and bloops February 29, 2012. The Robotics Institute’s Howie Choset, Joydeep Biswas, Heather Knight and Marek Michalowski are featured in CNN’s Geek Out blog, where they talk about what compels people to build robots.
		Forbes Names Knight to "30 Under 30" List December 21, 2011. Robotics Institute PhD student Heather Knight was listed by Forbes magazine in its "30 Under 30" special report on tomorrow's brightest stars. Former student Stuart Anderson was included in the Technology list. The magazine identified 30 top disrupters under age 30 in 12 different fields. Knight was among those chosen in the Science category. Former student Stuart Anderson was included in the Technology list.
		Heather Knight Interviewed on CNN September 06, 2011. Robotics PhD student Heather Knight and her robot comedian Data were featured on the Sept. 4 edition of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN. Watch the video.
		Census 2010: Counting The Robots August 31, 2010. Data gathering for the U.S. 2010 Census may be finished, but it has just begun for the Robot Census 2010. Heather Knight, a first-year PhD student in the Robotics Institute, has launched the unprecedented effort to count every robot residing in Carnegie Mellon University’s laboratories.