Ground Truth Autonomy By Andrew Lewis | January 18, 2022 | 7 min. read “Ironically, I don’t really drive,” admits the man who has spent his entire career working on self-driving vehicles. “I ride my bike everywhere.” Matt Johnson-Roberson’s little secret may at first seem counterintuitive. But allow him to explain: “I often look at [...]
By Aaron Aupperlee Photo courtesy of Northrop Grumman.SCS researchers will head a consortium to develop ways to robotically inspect, maintain and manufacture satellites and other structures in orbit, much like Northrop Grumman’s Mission Robotic Vehicle is using its robotic arm to attach a service a satellite in this rendering. There are 6,500 satellites [...]
As part of The Robotics Project, the Looking Back to Move Forward | A Re:collection of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon exhibition is open on the first floor of Hunt Library. Through more than 40 robots and artifacts, the exhibition explores past projects from a variety of research areas CMU is known for: field robotics, artificial [...]
Keenan Crane, Jodi Forlizzi, Jian Ma and Lining Yao have all recently earned endowed professorships in SCS. Four School of Computer Science professors recently received endowed faculty chairs in recognition of their work and to support further research. Keenan Crane received the inaugural Michael B. Donohue Career Development Chair. Crane's work focuses on [...]
Girls of Steel, a FIRST Robotics Competition team at CMU, recently received a $10,000 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant to create BuzzBand, a wearable fitness device designed for youth with autism who are facing sensory, physical and emotional challenges associated with exercise. Girls of Steel is one of only eight high school organizations nationwide to be selected [...]
The event is organized as part of AI for Good - the United Nations' leading action-oriented, global, and inclusive platform on ethical AI. The webinar will be held Tuesday, November 30 at 16:00 CET. More information https://aiforgood.itu.int/.../robots-saving-lives-in.../
CMU Alum Matthew Johnson-Roberson To Head Institute in January Much has changed since Matthew Johnson-Roberson last walked the halls of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. In the 15-plus years since Johnson-Roberson graduated, robots have proven they work. They can navigate city streets and sidewalks. They can fly autonomously to inspect bridges, buildings and tunnels. [...]
Aaron Aupperlee Red Whittaker received keys to the City of Pittsburgh from Mayor Bill Peduto on Friday, Nov. 5. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto presented keys to the city to Carnegie Mellon University's Red Whittaker and Andrew Moore on Friday, calling the two “leaders of the fourth industrial revolution.” Peduto, who will leave office [...]
Congratulations to the authors! Best paper on Agri-Robotics: A Robust Illumination-Invariant Camera System for Agricultural Applications Abhisesh Silwal, Tanvir Parhar, Francisco Yandun, Harjatin Baweja, and George Kantor Finalist for best conference and best student paper: Ground Encoding: Learned Factor Graph-Based Models for Localizing Ground Penetrating Radar Alexander Baikovitz, Paloma Sodhi, Michael Dille, Michael Kaess https://www.iros2021.org/awards
By Yana Ilieva Email A Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company, Marinus Analytics, won third place and $500,000 in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition, announced Wednesday, June 23, 2021. This XPRIZE is a global competition incentivizing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for radical breakthroughs in problems facing humanity. Marinus Analytics was recognized for its [...]