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Robotics Institute Developing Electric Conversion Vehicles November 16, 2009. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute have converted a 2001 Scion xB into an electric commuter vehicle that will serve as a test bed for a new community-based approach to electric vehicle design, conversion and operations.  |
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DOE Grant Supports Automated Discovery of Astrophysical Phenomena October 26, 2009. Automated methods for discovering astrophysical phenomena by sifting through massive amounts of cosmological data are being developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington under a new three-year, $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). |
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GigaPan To Help Lakota Teens Document Their Community September 03, 2009. Twenty Lakota high school students from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota will learn how Carnegie Mellon University’s GigaPan robotic camera can help them document their community during National Geographic’s Pine Ridge Photo Camp. |
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Interns Work To Assist Tanzanian Communities August 31, 2009. Six Carnegie Mellon students and recent alumni spent the summer working on a unique internship that took many of them all the way to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. |
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Treiulle Named to TR35 List of Top Young Innovators August 18, 2009. Adrien Treuille, an assistant professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University who specializes in real-time computer simulation techniques, has been recognized by Technology Review magazine as one of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35. |
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Extreme Pogo Stick Uses Robotic Leg Technology August 13, 2009. "BowGo," a high-flying pogo stick developed by the Robotics Institute's Ben Brown, will be used by extreme pogo enthusiasts at their annual gathering, Pogopalooza, which will be in Pittsburgh Aug. 19-22. |
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Robotics Institute Spinoff Unveils Toy Robots July 09, 2009. Bossa Nova Robotics, a 2005 spinoff from the Robotics Institute, came to campus to unveil to the news media its first commercial products – a pair of toy robots called Prime-8 and Penbo. |
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GigaPan Goes to Commencement May 21, 2009. In what is becoming a Carnegie Mellon tradition, Jeff Baker, a research programmer in the Robotics Institute’s CREATE Lab, captured a GigaPan image of the university’s commencement ceremony. View it here, http://tinyurl.com/pn3m69, and be sure to create snapshots of any SCS students or faculty. |
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Mason Wins RAS Pioneer Award May 20, 2009. Matthew T. Mason, director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, was presented the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s Pioneer Award at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation on May 16 in Kobe, Japan. |
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O’Hare Travelers ‘Explore Chicago’ Via GigaPan March 30, 2009. Fifty computer kiosks in Chicago's O'Hare International Airport now enable travelers to experience Windy City places by exploring images created with GigaPan, a technology developed by the Robotics Institute and NASA. |
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Veloso Wins Autonomous Agents Research Award March 09, 2009. Manuela M. Veloso, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who studies how robots can learn, plan and work together to accomplish tasks, is the winner of the 2009 Autonomous Agents Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM/SIGART). |
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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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Carnegie Mellon, U at Buffalo Join on $4.7 Million Project To Advance Public Transportation for People With Disabilities December 02, 2008. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York, are collaborating on a five-year, $4.7 million effort to advance public transportation for people with disabilities by bringing together computer science technology and the principles of universal design. |
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