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CMU Researchers Train Robots With Internet Videos
The Breakdown: VideoManip teaches robots manipulation skills using videos of people interacting with objects. It reconstructs movements and estimates how people make contact with objects. The system helps robots learn new skills without time-consuming, human-operated demonstrations. * * * Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School[...]
Carnegie Mellon Team Helps Farmers Fight Crop Disease With Robots
Fire blight can devastate orchards, killing branches and entire trees while causing major economic losses for growers. To help farmers detect the disease earlier and reduce the spread of infection, a team of students from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI) developed a robotic solution[...]
Pathak Receives 2026 PAMI Young Researcher Award
Deepak Pathak, the Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Robotics in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI), has received a 2026 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young Researcher Award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). This award is among the[...]
CMU Researchers Develop AI System to Help Prevent Airport Collisions
The Breakdown: World2Rules learns patterns of risky aircraft behavior from real airport operations and incident data. It explains its warnings in simple terms that are easy for humans to understand. World2Rules is designed to work alongside existing prediction systems to enhance aircraft safety. * *[...]
Work Hard and Dream Harder
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[...]
Robotics Institute Launches Next Phase of Vision-Language-Navigation Challenge
A research group at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) will host the latest phase of the Vision-Language-Navigation (VLN) Challenge, bringing researchers together to enable robots to understand and act on human instructions in the real world — one of robotics’ most famously difficult pursuits. [...]