Two sailors use small amphibious robots to perform real-time mapping and navigation around a lakeshore. In another exercise, sailors monitor a robot reconnaissance vehicle crawling through a maze. They reveal a simulated hazardous object in the field.
These scenes aren’t from military training, but from a final training competition led by the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy (CMRA).
Following a successful pilot in 2024, Carnegie Mellon University recently completed a second round of hands-on training for the U.S. Navy’s emerging class of robotics specialists. Developed in collaboration with the Office of Naval Research, the program aims to explore cost-effective ways to prepare sailors for a fast-changing robotics landscape by equipping them to rapidly understand, operate and adapt autonomous systems, including certain forms of AI.
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