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Taking Autonomous Driving Off-Road
Trees, vegetation, rocks, unpredictable terrain and the lack of clearly-defined roads — or roads at all — won’t stop an autonomous, off-road vehicle developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. As self-driving taxis, trucks and other vehicles pop up on city streets and[...]
Researchers Create Transformable Flat-to-Shape Objects Using Sewing Technology
Researchers from the Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University introduced a novel method for fabricating functional flat-to-shape objects using a computer-controlled sewing machine. The team includes Sapna Tayal, undergraduate student in the School of Design; Lea Albaugh, Mark[...]
Innovative Algorithm Enhances Robot Tracking for High-Precision Manipulation Tasks
Robots with human-level dexterity have the potential to revolutionize object manipulation and reconstruction tasks, but achieving this level of dexterity comes with challenges, particularly when it comes to robots handling a wide variety of low-texture objects with high precision. To address this challenge and push[...]
Howie Choset Elected AAAS Fellow
Howie Choset, Kavčić-Moura Professor of Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute has been elected as a 2024 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.[...]
RI Ph.D. Wins Three Minute Thesis Competition, Earns Jane Street Fellowship
Vivian Shen, Robotics Institute Ph.D. student, emerged as the champion of the Carnegie Mellon University Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT). The internationally recognized competition, hosted by Carnegie Mellon Libraries, challenges Ph.D. students from across the university to present their thesis in an accessible language in[...]
CMU Researchers Blend Materials at “Hard Textiles” Jam
On Friday, March 7, the Textiles Lab at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, led by Associate Professor Jim McCann hosted a “Hard Textiles” lab jam. The lab jams show the unique ways textiles and technology interact, showcase the possible directions of future research and give[...]