Beverly (Bev) Da Costa is the inaugural graduate from the Bachelor of Science in Robotics program. A mass email from the dean to the entire Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science felt especially personal to Beverly (Bev) Da Costa. The email, sent by Martial Hebert back in 2023, announced the Bachelor of [...]
Amy Arteritano graduated with a teaching degree in 1996, the same year Carnegie Mellon University opened its National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC). She didn’t know it then, but CMU would soon become a lifeline when her career reached a crossroads.
Todd Jochem (SCS 1993, 1996) has been in the driver’s seat of autonomous vehicles for decades. Long before “self-driving car” became a household phrase, he was helping to demonstrate the technology could work beyond the lab. In 1995, Jochem helped complete a 2,850-mile journey from Pittsburgh to San Diego, known as “No Hands Across America,” [...]
Martial Hebert and Marco Antonio Pérez Cisneros The Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute Summer Scholars program (RISS) has launched a partnership with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) to create pathways for undergraduate researchers from Mexico to engage with robotics and artificial intelligence research. The collaboration with UdeG’s University Center of Exact Sciences and [...]
2026 MRSD Swartz Fellows Abhishek Mathur and Gweneth Ge. MRSD students have many things in common. Hardworking, intelligent, and driven, students in the program continually stand out in their projects and industry knowledge that they apply both within and after their time in graduate school. However, several MRSD students share another thing in [...]
Greg Armstrong (manager) and Leonardo Mouta (student worker) calibrate robots in the AI Maker Space. At the Carnegie Mellon University AI Maker Space, interdisciplinary collaboration thrives. Here, a biology student might work alongside a computer science major, while across the room, a business student brainstorms with an artist. The only prerequisite? Curiosity. In [...]
