Shape-Shifting Tires, Digital Driving Assistants Could Enable Safe Driving Over All Kinds of Terrain Byron Spice Monday, October 29, 2018 NREC has developed a vehicle with wheels that transform into tracks on the fly and a digital assistant that helps drivers find the safest, surest route across steep terrain as part of DARPA's Ground X-Vehicle [...]
Modularity will be key to robotic exploration of caves, tunnels, underground structures Team leaders Matt Travers and Sebastian Scherer guide CMU's Subterranean Challenge team as they begin work on August 27, 2018. CMU is one of the teams being funded by DARPA in the challenge, a $2 million contest where autonomous robots are used [...]
New Mon Valley Breathe Cams Document Sources of Visual Pollution PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab is using a new network of cameras to provide 24-hour monitoring of visible air pollution from industrial sources in the Monongahela Valley. The network is being activated today in conjunction with the [...]
CMU Researchers Foresee Machines Capable of On-Demand Knitting PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have developed a system that can translate a wide variety of 3-D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions that enable a computer-controlled knitting machine to automatically produce those shapes. Researchers in the Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab have used the system to produce [...]
NSF Awards $10 Million to Interdisciplinary Researchers at Five Universities By Byron Spice Monday, February 26, 2018 Computational illumination and imaging approaches developed at CMU produce images of different body parts that show features up to two millimeters deep. Researchers expect new techniques will enable images of structures at least 10 times deeper. [...]
by Christine O’Toole, Pittsburgh Quarterly Higher Education 2018 Winter In January, Carnegie Mellon University professor Red Whittaker set a goal that had nothing to do with robotics: to best a field of competitors in an indoor rowing race. The ergometer competition, a 2,000-meter battle on stationary machines, marked the first time the 69-year-old Whittaker [...]
Aaron Aupperlee Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, 11:06 a.m. Argo AI, a Pittsburgh-based startup developing self-driving technology for Ford, will team up with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Tech to work on computer vision and machine learning technology. Deva Ramanan and Simon Lucey from CMU and James Hays from Georgia Tech will join the [...]
WASHINGTON — Seventeen years after LTV Steel closed its Hazelwood operation, its site is being prepared for new life as a catalyst for the region’s — and the nation’s — next big industrial revolution. A new nonprofit offshoot of Carnegie Mellon University is in negotiations with foundations that own the former industrial site known as [...]
A two-part report on artificial intelligence, featuring such Carnegie Mellon robots as CHIMP and an autonomous boat, will aired Oct. 9, on CBS's 60 Minutes.
A new feature for the SpeckSensor app enables users to see the number of “dirty days” when air quality has been unhealthy in a locale over the past year and to compare that number with other cities across the nation.