Robotics Institute: Recent News

Byron Spice
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Recent News

		RI students invited to CNBC's Meeting of the Minds November 19, 2009. Students are invited to attend a free taping on campus of the CNBC special program, Meeting of the Minds on Monday, Nov. 30. The program will feature leading manufacturing executives and CNBC host Maria Bartiromo. Advance registration is required.

		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.

		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).

		Berenson Wins Intel PhD Fellowship October 19, 2009. Dmitry Berenson, a PhD candidate in the Robotics Institute, is the winner of a prestigious Intel PhD Fellowship, one of just 26 winners nationwide in the highly competitive program.

		QinetiQ North America Awards Robotics Fellowship September 30, 2009. Daniel Munoz, a first-year Ph.D. student in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, is the first recipient of the QinetiQ North America Robotics Fellowship, which will provide him with three years of educational support. The fellowship also includes an internship with QinetiQ North America.

		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.

		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.

		Gabriel Named Deputy Director of DARPA August 31, 2009. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced Distinguished Service Professor of Robotics Kaigham (Ken) Gabriel as the new deputy director.

		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.

		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.

		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.

		GigaPan School Exchange Expands This Fall August 31, 2009. The GigaPan School Exchange, a 21st century “pen pal” program, established by Carnegie Mellon University’s Global Connection Program in partnership with the UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE), will expand this fall.

		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.

		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.

		Robot Hall of Fame Announces New Inductees April 21, 2009. Carnegie Science Center and Carnegie Mellon University announced today the 2010 class of inductees into the Robot Hall of Fame® at a press preview of roboworld™, the Science Center’s new robotics exhibition opening June 13 and the permanent home for the Hall of Fame.

		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.

		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).

		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.

		Robotics Academy Develops Associate Degree February 23, 2009. More than two dozen industry partners have joined with Carnegie Mellon University and other Pittsburgh-area universities and community colleges to create an associate degree program that will train technicians to build and maintain robots and other embedded computer systems, which have become ubiquitous in today’s world.

		Carnegie Mellon's William "Red" Whittaker Elected to National Academy of Engineering February 11, 2009. William L. “Red” Whittaker, Carnegie Mellon University’s Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics and chairman and chief technical officer of Astrobotic Technology, Inc., has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

		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.

		Carnegie Mellon Developing Automated Systems To Enable Precision Farming of Apples, Oranges November 19, 2008. Two groups of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute have received a total of $10 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to build automated farming systems.

		Takeo Kanade Receives Franklin Institutes Prestigious Bower Award May 13, 2008. Takeo Kanade is the 2008 recipient of the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science from the historic Franklin Institute.

		Disney Launches Global Research & Development Labs With Carnegie Mellon And Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) August 11, 2008. Disney has established a major research and development initiative at Carnegie Mellon University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich.

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