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CMU Prepares Navy Robotics Specialists for the Age of AI
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[...]
Ioannis Gkioulekas Recognized as Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist
Ioannis Gkioulekas, associate professor at the Robotics Institute in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has received the 2025 Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist award in the field of Applied Sciences and Technologies: Artificial Intelligence. The Bodossaki Foundation recognizes contributions made to Greek society[...]
Jiaoyang Li Earns NSF CAREER Award
Jiaoyang Li, assistant professor at the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has earned the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. The CAREER Program grants some of NSF’s most prestigious awards to early-career faculty who show exemplary[...]
CMU’s Autonomous Reforestation Robot Earns National Award
Appleseed Labs, a team within the Kantor Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, received the Excellence in Regenerative Agriculture award at the 2025 Farm Robotics Challenge. The team was advised by Senior Project Scientist Francisco Yandun and included students Will Heitman, Joyce Zhu, Ken Muangsiri, Alex[...]
CMU Scores Fourth Straight Victory At MITRE Cybersecurity Competition
A team of 15 students from Carnegie Mellon University have won the 2025 Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) security competition, securing CMU's fourth straight win. The eCTF is a two-phase competition run by MITRE that challenges teams to design and submit a secure system and[...]
Andrea Bajcsy Earns NSF CAREER Award
Andrea Bajcsy, assistant professor at the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has earned the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. The CAREER Program grants some of NSF’s most prestigious awards to early-career faculty who show exemplary[...]