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CMU To Send Group of Satellites Into Orbit To Test Low-Cost Autonomous Swarming

The CMU team is monitoring four small satellites as they communicate with each other, determining where they are relative to one another and autonomously maneuvering to stay within communication range. The satellites have no propulsion systems but can change their orbital positions by adjusting their orientation in flight to increase or decrease drag. These maneuvers [...]

CMU Robotics Institute Develops System To Detect and Fix Problems in Gas Pipelines

Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute are developing a modular robot that can creep inside natural gas pipelines to map where pipes are, detect decrepit or leaking pipes, and, when necessary, repair the pipe by applying a resin coating along its inner wall. "We don't even know where all the old pipes are," said [...]

Changliu Liu Receives Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Champion Award

Congratulations to Changliu Liu for receiving the 2023 ARM Champion Award! The ARM Champion Award Program is an effort to recognize members of the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute who go above and beyond. Changliu has made a substantial impact to ARM through her work in robot safety. The ultimate goal of my research is [...]

Dubrawski Receives Fulbright Specialist Award

Artur Dubrawski, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award to complete a project with the Łukasiewicz Research Network at the Poznań Institute of Technology in Poland. The project aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting participants, institutions and communities both in the U.S. and [...]

AI vs Human: The Creativity Experiment

Can AI match humans for artistic creativity? Rad Yeo explores the 'creep' of generative AI, from performing a ChatGPT written comedy routine to portrait painting robots. If it can, what does it mean for humanity? That is the question posed in the new documentary from ABC Australia featuring the work of Peter Schaldenbrand, Jim McCann [...]

CMU Sensor Objectively Measures Scratching Intensity

Akhil Padmanabha knows about itching. His chronic itching caused by severe eczema was so debilitating that he was hospitalized twice and had to be home-schooled during most of his high school years. Itch so impacted his life that, as an undergraduate, he contemplated becoming a psychologist so he could help chronically ill teens facing similar [...]

New Bachelor of Science in Robotics Program Launched!

Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) has launched a new undergraduate degree to educate and train the next generation of roboticists needed for the growing field. The Bachelor of Science in Robotics will fuse the school's rigorous computer science curriculum with the university's world-renowned work in robots, computer vision and artificial intelligence through [...]

CMU Robot Puts on Shirts One Sleeve at a Time

Most people take getting dressed for granted. But data from the National Center for Health Statistics reveals that 92% of nursing facility residents and at-home care patients require assistance with dressing. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI) see a future where robots can help with this need and are working to make it [...]

Zakia Hammal Named Finalist for AI Researcher of the Year for the Women in AI Awards

Update: Congratulations to Zakia on winning in the AI in Research - AI Researcher of the Year category! Zakia Hammal, a systems scientist in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and an assistant research professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Women in AI Awards North America [...]