Sponsored  by the Teruko Yata Memorial Fund

Open to the public.

Demonstrations will include:

1. Biorobotics Lab – Howie Choset – Snake Robots Demo
2. Automated Precision Experimentation Laboratories (APEX Labs) Demo by MRSD Team H – Arnav Kharbanda, Juan Muerto, Karthik, Srinivasan, Arnaz Alam Ahmed, John Dolan – We will present a mobile manipulator designed to automate laboratory work, demonstrating autonomous operation for laboratory tasks of handling and moving chemicals.
3. HARP Lab: Henny Admoni –  Assistive robots hold a lot of promise in helping people with everyday physical tasks like cleaning up a table. But how do these robots learn what they need to know to do those tasks? In this demo, you will see a robot arm that can learn to do different tasks using guidance from human teachers.
4. Autonomous navigation and scene understanding: two robots,  Ji Zhang – 1x wheeled robot and 1x legged robot will autonomously navigate in the atrium.
5. AI Motion Capture – Kris Kitani – Single web camera that estimates human body pose in 3D.
6. Dinosuar and Penguin Robots – Steven Man – The Robomechanics Lab will show some of our recent robot designs, including some quadrupeds with dinosaur-inspired spines and a biped penguin robot, along with other demos.
7. AutoKNEE: An Autonomous Total Knee Arthroplasty System with Mixed-Reality Teleoperation and Real-Time Digital Twin Guidance
   Team Members: Aayush Agrawal, Shreenabh Agrawal, Shubh Jain, Gabriel Zaragoza, John Dolan, Dimi Apostolopoulos
   – We will be presenting our work on bone tracking, augmented reality-based real-time tracking, and autonomous drilling.
   https://mrsdprojects.ri.cmu.edu/2026teamb/

More info on the 2026 Open House Page