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Whittaker Talks Driverless Cars April 04, 2013. William “Red” Whittaker, professor of robotics, talked with the Big Picture Science radio show about driverless cars. Listen to his interview about the technology and where it is taking us. Whittaker is a pioneer of autonomous navigation and led Carnegie Mellon's victorious Tartan Racing Team in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge robot race.  | |
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Whittaker Leads NASA Study to Keep Planetary Rovers Rolling February 14, 2013. William “Red” Whittaker, director of Carnegie Mellon’s Field Robotics Center and CEO of Astrobotic Technology Inc., will lead a NASA-funded study to figure out how robots such as the Mars rover Curiosity can avoid getting stuck in sinking sand or similarly hazardous terrain. | |
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Astrobotic Technology Assembles Prototype of Lunar Water-Prospecting Robot October 08, 2012. Astrobotic Technology Inc. has completed assembly of a full-size prototype of Polaris, a solar-powered robot that will search for potentially rich deposits of water ice at the moon’s poles. The first of its kind, Polaris can accommodate a drill to bore one meter into the lunar surface and can operate in a lunar regions characterized by dark, long shadows and a sun that hugs the horizon. Astrobotic, a Robotics Institute spinoff that develops robotics technology for planetary missions, is developing Polaris for an expedition to the moon’s northern pole. | |
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Red Whittaker To Receive IEEE Simon Ramo Medal June 22, 2012. William “Red” Whittaker, who has repeatedly developed robots to work in such inhospitable places as contaminated nuclear plants, abandoned mines, active volcanoes, Antarctic glaciers and the moon, has been awarded the 2012 Simon Ramo Medal by IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization. | |
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Astrobotic Announces New Robot Design, New Lunar Mission April 04, 2012. Robotics Institute spin-off Astrobotic Technology has unveiled a new design and name – Polaris – for its lunar rover, which will prospect for potentially rich deposits of water ice, methane and other resources at the moon's north pole. | |
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Scarab demonstrates new fuel cell March 02, 2012. NASA's Glenn Research Center used the Scarab robot developed by the Robotics Institute to demonstrate a new fuel cell for the first time outside of a laboratory setting. The new type of fuel cell will extend the range of surface operations for rovers that will explore new worlds as part of future NASA missions. | |
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Astrobotic Gains New Task in NASA Contract February 28, 2012. NASA has awarded Astrobotic Technology Inc. an additional task in its $10 million Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contract under which NASA buys information about the company's commercial robotic expeditions to the Moon. The $100,000 task order brings total funding under the ILDD contract thus far to $610,000. | |
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Astrobotic's Red Rover is Best of What's New November 16, 2011. Astrobotic Technology's Red Rover made Popular Science's annual list of the Best of What's New, announced in the magazine's December issue. The magazine noted that the team, headed by the Robotics Institute's William "Red" Whittaker, took the lead this year over 26 competitors in the race to win the $20 million Google Lunar X Prize. | |
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CMU, Astrobotic Assemble Lunar Lander June 15, 2011. Astrobotic Technology Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have completed structural assembly of the lunar landing craft that will deliver the Red Rover robot to the moon in 2014. The half-ton aluminum structure will now undergo shake testing to confirm its soundness and its compatibility with the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle. | |
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Whittaker To Receive AAAI Feigenbaum Prize June 06, 2011. William “Red” Whittaker’s contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through innovation and achievement in autonomous vehicle research, as signified by his team’s victory in the 2007 Urban Challenge robot race, have won him a share of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s (AAAI) inaugural Feigenbaum Prize. | |
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Astrobotic Signs Contract for SpaceX to Launch Robot to Moon February 07, 2011. Astrobotic Technology Inc., the Carnegie Mellon University spin-off headed by William “Red” Whittaker, has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch Astrobotic’s exploration robot to the Moon atop one of the company’s Falcon 9 boosters. The mission could launch as soon as December 2013. | |
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NASA Delivers $500,000 to Astrobotic Technology for Moon Mission December 21, 2010. Carnegie Mellon University spin-out Astrobotic Technology has received the first $500,000 task order from the $10 million contract that NASA awarded the company in October. The order will help the company design, build and test the primary structure for its lunar lander. | |
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Google Robot Car Project Involves Large CMU Contingent October 20, 2010. Google Inc.'s autonomous vehicle project has achieved a milestone for self-driving vehicles, with eight cars logging more than 140,000 miles on public roads with minimal human input. Current and former Carnegie Mellon students, faculty and staff have made large contributions as part of the Google team. | |
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Astrobotic Technology wins NASA data contract October 18, 2010. Carnegie Mellon University spin-off Astrobotic Technology was awarded a $10 million contract through NASA’s Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) program for data to be gathered before and during the company’s April 2013 robotic expedition to the Moon. Read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's coverage of the Astrobotic team. | |
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Carnegie Robotics Partners With NREC To Make Components, Systems August 30, 2010. Carnegie Mellon University announces the launch of a new firm, Carnegie Robotics LLC, which will develop, manufacture and service robotic components and systems in partnership with the university’s highly successful National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC). | |
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Caterpillar Will Sponsor Tranquility Trek August 23, 2010. Astrobotic Technology, a Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) spin-off company, has announced that Caterpillar Inc. will be a sponsor of its first robotic expedition to the lunar surface. The initial Astrobotic mission, Tranquility Trek, will revisit the Apollo 11 site in April 2013 with a five-foot tall, 160-lb. robot broadcasting 3D high-definition video. The mission will carry payloads to the Moon and convey the experience to the world via Internet video access. | |
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Astrobotic Wants to Sell Lunar Data to NASA August 09, 2010. Astrobotic Technology, a Carnegie Mellon University spin-off company devoted to robotic exploration of the Moon, announced that it will pursue NASA’s offer to buy up to $10 million in data from a commercial lunar lander mission. The space agency's Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) program has a total budget of $30 million. | |
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Scarab Featured at NASA Day June 24, 2010. The Robotics Institute's Dom Jonak and David Kohanbash took Scarab to Washington, D.C., June 23 to participate in NASA Day on the Hill. The NASA-sponsored robot is designed to test robot designs and components that might be used to prospect for ice and other resources on the moon. | |
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Grand Challenges of Science: Robotics April 06, 2010. In January, DISCOVER and the National Science Foundation continued their Grand Challenges event series with a panel discussion at Carnegie Mellon University exploring the dynamic world of robotics. Videos are now available online. | |
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Study Shows Robots Could Prepare Lunar Landing Pad February 25, 2009. Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA’s Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical assistance from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. | |
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RI Seminar: Red Whittaker Robots at Work October 24, 2008 - Length: 80:00 |
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