Service Award Recipient A. Nico Habermann Educational Service Award: Greg Armstrong - Senior Research Technician/AI Maker Space Manager, RI Staff Recognition Award Recipient Sustained Excellence: Brian Staszel, RI "...always does an extraordinary job...actions help RI achieve excellence every single day...creator and keeper of...excellence...the George Lucas of robotics video...so fortunate to have him."

Alan Guisewite, an operations assistant in the Robotics Institute for 40 years, died earlier this month. He was 74.   His official title was operations assistant. But between his technical capabilities, institutional memory and seemingly comprehensive knowledge of building materials, Alan Guisewite was a veritable Swiss Army knife in the Robotics Institute for 40 years. [...]

Research from Carnegie Mellon University took home top honors at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) last month.   The ICRA is among the largest and most prestigious robotics conferences. More than 3,000 papers were submitted to the conference and about 1,500 were presented. Students, faculty and staff from the School [...]

TartanDrive Dataset Likely Largest for Off-Road Environments Byron Spice   CMU researchers took an ATV on wild rides to gather data that could be used to train self-driving vehicles to drive off road in the future. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University took an all-terrain vehicle on wild rides through tall grass, loose gravel [...]

Aaron Aupperlee Robotics Institute researchers have developed an algorithmic planner that helps delegate tasks to humans and robots. As robots increasingly join people on the factory floor, in warehouses and elsewhere on the job, dividing up who will do which tasks grows in complexity and importance. People are better suited for some tasks, [...]

Howie Choset is a Professor of Robotics where he serves as the co-director, along with Matt Travers, of the Biorobotics Lab. Choset's research program has made contributions to strategically significant problems in surgery, manufacturing, on-orbit maintenance, recycling and search and rescue. His work is most famous for its snake robots and other biologically inspired systems [...]

Megan Harris Tuesday, March 8, 2022Print this page. Congressman Mike Doyle toured the Girls of Steel's practice field at CMU's Bakery Square facility on Saturday, March 5. He paused to pose with the team in a Rosie the Riveter salute. It's two weeks until the competition, and 17-year-old Ella Maier is ecstatic her robot can [...]

Aaron AupperleeTuesday, March 8, 2022  Changliu Liu, Eunsuk Kang, George Chen and Yuanzhi Li have received Faculty Early Career Development Program awards from the National Science Foundation. Four Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the School of Computer Science recently received Faculty Early Career Development Program awards from the National Science Foundation. The nearly $2.5 million [...]

  Four SCS students were named as Finalists for the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Collegiate Award, tying for the most students awarded from one university. Congratulations to Ye Won Byun (RI), Tabitha Lee (RI), Gayatri Rajan (CS), and Michelle Zhao (RI).

By Aaron Aupperlee The Association for Computing Machinery has named Anupam Gupta and Matthew T. Mason 2021 ACM fellows. The ACM recognized Gupta, a professor in the Computer Science Department, for his contributions to approximation algorithms, online algorithms, stochastic algorithms and metric embeddings. Mason, a professor emeritus in the Robotics Institute, was honored for his [...]

Ground Truth Autonomy By Andrew Lewis  |  January 18, 2022 |  7 min. read “Ironically, I don’t really drive,” admits the man who has spent his entire career working on self-driving vehicles. “I ride my bike everywhere.” Matt Johnson-Roberson’s little secret may at first seem counterintuitive. But allow him to explain: “I often look at [...]

By Aaron Aupperlee Photo courtesy of Northrop Grumman.SCS researchers will head a consortium to develop ways to robotically inspect, maintain and manufacture satellites and other structures in orbit, much like Northrop Grumman’s Mission Robotic Vehicle is using its robotic arm to attach a service a satellite in this rendering. There are 6,500 satellites [...]

As part of The Robotics Project, the Looking Back to Move Forward | A Re:collection of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon exhibition is open on the first floor of Hunt Library. Through more than 40 robots and artifacts, the exhibition explores past projects from a variety of research areas CMU is known for: field robotics, artificial [...]

Keenan Crane, Jodi Forlizzi, Jian Ma and Lining Yao have all recently earned endowed professorships in SCS. Four School of Computer Science professors recently received endowed faculty chairs in recognition of their work and to support further research. Keenan Crane received the inaugural Michael B. Donohue Career Development Chair. Crane's work focuses on [...]

Girls of Steel, a FIRST Robotics Competition team at CMU, recently received a $10,000 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant to create BuzzBand, a wearable fitness device designed for youth with autism who are facing sensory, physical and emotional challenges associated with exercise. Girls of Steel is one of only eight high school organizations nationwide to be selected [...]

The event is organized as part of AI for Good - the United Nations' leading action-oriented, global, and inclusive platform on ethical AI. The webinar will be held Tuesday, November 30 at 16:00 CET. More information https://aiforgood.itu.int/.../robots-saving-lives-in.../

CMU Alum Matthew Johnson-Roberson To Head Institute in January   Much has changed since Matthew Johnson-Roberson last walked the halls of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. In the 15-plus years since Johnson-Roberson graduated, robots have proven they work. They can navigate city streets and sidewalks. They can fly autonomously to inspect bridges, buildings and tunnels. [...]

Aaron Aupperlee Red Whittaker received keys to the City of Pittsburgh from Mayor Bill Peduto on Friday, Nov. 5. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto presented keys to the city to Carnegie Mellon University's Red Whittaker and Andrew Moore on Friday, calling the two “leaders of the fourth industrial revolution.” Peduto, who will leave office [...]

Congratulations to the authors! Best paper on Agri-Robotics: A Robust Illumination-Invariant Camera System for Agricultural Applications Abhisesh Silwal, Tanvir Parhar, Francisco Yandun, Harjatin Baweja, and George Kantor Finalist for best conference and best student paper: Ground Encoding: Learned Factor Graph-Based Models for Localizing Ground Penetrating Radar Alexander Baikovitz, Paloma Sodhi, Michael Dille, Michael Kaess https://www.iros2021.org/awards

By Yana Ilieva Email A Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company, Marinus Analytics, won third place and $500,000 in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition, announced Wednesday, June 23, 2021. This XPRIZE is a global competition incentivizing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for radical breakthroughs in problems facing humanity. Marinus Analytics was recognized for its [...]

Research From Robotics Ph.D. Maps Emotions to Robotic Behavior The pros make it look easy, but making a movie with a drone can be anything but. First, it takes skill to fly the often expensive pieces of equipment smoothly and without crashing. And once you've mastered flying, there are camera angles, panning speeds, trajectories and [...]

Foundation Announce Historic Partnership to Accelerate CMU’s Science and Technology Leadership and the Transformation of Hazelwood Green Foundation approves record $150M grant to support cutting-edge science building on campus, and new robotics center and advanced manufacturing institute at Hazelwood Green Carnegie Mellon University and the Richard King Mellon Foundation today announced that the two long-time [...]

The Carnegie Mellon University team sending a tiny rover to the moon in 2021 has invited more people along for the ride. The Iris lunar rover team launched a crowdfunding campaign this week to raise $50,000 to help with the final costs of their lunar mission. Anyone who donates to the project will have their [...]

Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab and the grassroots advocacy group Allegheny County Clean Air Now (ACCAN) are winners of an inaugural Constellation Prize for their collaboration on the Shenango Channel, an effort to highlight pollutants from a now-defunct coke works near Pittsburgh. The Constellation Prize was created by a group of engineers and social scientists [...]

"LVS Valid" The message would sound cryptic to most people, but for Andrew Johnson, a principal robotics system engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, receiving it from Mars on Thursday will mean everything. It will mean that the lander vision system developed by his team worked properly and that NASA's Perseverance rover is one step [...]

Artur Dubrawski will receive the Alumni Research Professorship of Computer Science and Carleton Kingsford will receive the Herbert A. Simon Professorship of Computer Science in a virtual ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The usual ceremonies for these and other new professorships were delayed last year by the pandemic and have now been modified as virtual [...]

Machine Learning Identifies Precursors of Engine Failure   A MH-60 helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment transports role players from the battlefield during Invincible Sentry 2019 near Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha, Qatar, March 22. Invincible Sentry is an annual training exercise used by United States Central Command to validate subordinate [...]

A NASA mission slated for launch on Friday will place three tiny satellites into low-Earth orbit, where they will demonstrate how satellites might track and communicate with each other, setting the stage for swarms of thousands of small satellites that can work cooperatively and autonomously. Zac Manchester, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics [...]

Takeo Kanade, U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor in the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department, was elected last month as a member of the Japan Academy, an organization that recognizes researchers with the most distinguished records of academic and scientific achievement. Earlier last year, Kanade was named a Person of Cultural Merit in Japan [...]

Abhinav Gupta, associate professor in the Robotics Institute, is the winner of the 2020 J.K. Aggarwal Prize, which is presented every two years by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) to a scientist under age 40 who has had a major impact on computer vision, pattern recognition and image processing. The IAPR is honoring [...]

Framework Helps Entrepreneurs Stay Competitive, Avoid Pitfalls PITTSBURGH—Founders of new ventures may spend most of their time creating business plans, perfecting new technology and contracting with suppliers, but it behooves them to also think about how to treat employees fairly, design and market their products ethically, and be transparent with investors. To help founders establish [...]

The Siebel Scholars Foundation announced that five School of Computer Science graduate students – Brandon Bohrer, Rogerio Bonatti, Megan Hofmann, Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung and Lijun Yu – are among the 2021 recipients of the Siebel Scholars award. Now in its 20th year, the program recognizes almost 100 students annually from the world’s leading graduate schools of computer [...]

Small, Speedy Rover Completes Preliminary Design Review   PITTSBURGH — MoonRanger, a small robotic rover being developed by Carnegie Mellon University and its spinoff Astrobotic, has completed its preliminary design review in preparation for a 2022 mission to search for signs of water at the moon's south pole. Whether buried ice exists in useful amounts [...]

Both Elements Are Critical for Applications Such As Self-Driving Cars PITTSBURGH—Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new metric for evaluating how well self-driving cars respond to changing road conditions and traffic, making it possible for the first time to compare perception systems for both accuracy and reaction time. Mengtian Li, a Ph.D. student [...]

The team of Xinshuo Weng and Ye Yuan, both Ph.D. students in the Robotics Institute, is one of 13 nationwide to win a 2020 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF). The QIF program is unusual because it requires pairs of students to submit proposals. Qualcomm says this approach reflects its core values of innovation, execution and partnership. [...]

Congratulations to authors: Mengtian Li, Yu-Xiong Wang, and Deva Ramanan from Carnegie Mellon University and Argo AI for receiving the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) for their paper Towards Streaming Image Understanding.

The Robotics Institute's Howie Choset is among four CMU faculty members who will receive new Kavčić-Moura professorships. Howie Choset, the Kavcic-Moura Professor of Computer Science, has joined the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), an international group founded this year by the United States and 14 other nations to shape a global agenda [...]

New UK Book Provides Perspectives For Navigating Uncertain Times Earthtime refugee flow EarthTime, the innovative data visualization technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab, takes center stage in a new book addressing some of the greatest challenges facing mankind. "Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years," is being published [...]

Carnegie Mellon Builds Dataset Capturing Interaction of Sound, Action, Vision   PITTSBURGH—People rarely use just one sense to understand the world, but robots usually only rely on vision and, increasingly, touch. Carnegie Mellon University researchers find that robot perception could improve markedly by adding another sense: hearing. In what they say is the first large-scale [...]

Researchers led by Saswati Ray, senior research analyst in School of Computer Science's Auton Lab, have once again received top scores among teams participating in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's program for building automated machine learning (AutoML) systems. The Data-Driven Discovery of Models (D3M) program seeks to automate the process of building predictive models [...]

Carnegie Mellon's Winning Strategy Speeds Up Robotic Searches   PITTSBURGH—A robot travelling from point A to point B is more efficient if it understands that point A is the living room couch and point B is a refrigerator, even if it's in an unfamiliar place. That's the common sense idea behind a "semantic" navigation system [...]

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Teach Robots To Infer Shapes From Color Images   PITTSBURGH—Kitchen robots are a popular vision of the future, but if a robot of today tries to grasp a kitchen staple such as a clear measuring cup or a shiny knife, it likely won't be able to. Transparent and reflective objects are the [...]

Rogerio Bonatti, a Ph.D. candidate in the Robotics Institute, is one of 10 recipients across North America who will receive Microsoft Research Dissertation Grants to support research for their Ph.D. thesis. Bonatti, who expects to complete his dissertation next year, has focused his research at the intersection of machine learning theory and motion planning. His [...]

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Carnegie Mellon University Associate Research Professor Michael Kaess poses for a portrait with an autonomous submersible robot in the High Bay of Newell Simon Hall on October 22, 2018. Michael Kaess, associate research professor in the Robotics Institute, and Frank Dellaert, a Ph.D. alumnus of the School of Computer Science and a professor [...]

            NASA's MoonRanger robot will rely on fully autonomous operations during its week-long mission, a level of autonomy that has never been achieved before in such a manner on the moon, says Red Whittaker of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute - RI.   By Kimberly Underwood The current development of [...]

Monte Carlo Method Dispenses With Troublesome Meshes   Carnegie Mellon University researchers have shown complex shapes need not be divided into intricate meshes, left, to perform geometric analysis. Instead of spending 14 hours creating a mesh, they use Monte Carlo methods to get initial results in less than a minute of the amount of [...]

RoadBotics selected for its contribution to the field of asset management! The World Economic Forum announced its selection of 100 of the most promising Technology Pioneers of 2020, who are shaping industries from agriculture to healthcare while also working on sustainability issues and much more. If you'd like to check out the full list Technology [...]

              Nominated by: Aaron Steinfeld and Students “She’s an organized and knowledgeable powerhouse...absolute pleasure to interact with...is not only appreciated, but adored...I honestly hope that I will be able to work with someone as amazing as her when I graduate from CMU...is the hidden force behind all our research.” Please [...]

Additional Data Boosts Accuracy of Tracking Other Cars, Pedestrians PITTSBURGH—For safety's sake, a self-driving car must accurately track the movement of pedestrians, bicycles and other vehicles around it. Training those tracking systems may now be more effective thanks to a new method developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Generally speaking, the more road and traffic data [...]

What a Perception System Doesn't See Can Help It Understand What It Sees                   PITTSBURGH—It's important that self-driving cars quickly detect other cars or pedestrians sharing the road. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that they can significantly improve detection accuracy by helping the vehicle also [...]

              Nominated by: Jessica Kaminsky“ ...has initiated several study groups focused on building empathy, understanding gender and race, and examining the role of a university in community and system-level change...values justice, compassion, and dreaming...extremely high work ethic and commitment to execute projects with integrity.”   Watch Jessica make the [...]

  Visualizations Poised to Enrich Teaching, Scientific Communication   PITTSBURGH— Some people look at an equation and see a bunch of numbers and symbols; others see beauty. Thanks to a new tool created at Carnegie Mellon University, anyone can now translate the abstractions of mathematics into beautiful and instructive illustrations. The tool enables users to create [...]

By Julia Mericle  – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times NASA awarded Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy a contract to develop drone systems for industrial infrastructure inspection, according to a news release. The company said current methods are resource heavy and dangerous for workers. Neart Earth Autonomy aims to develop a system that provides contact measurements and macro-imagery for [...]

What Can Cities, Businesses and Civic Groups Do About Pandemics? Political scientist and urban specialist Robert Muggah has worked with the Robotics Institute’s CREATE Lab to use the lab’s EarthTime platform to examine the threat of pandemics such as COVID-19 and ponder how governments and other groups can respond. The presentation displays time-lapse images of [...]

The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) announced that Chieko Asakawa, an IBM Fellow and the IBM Distinguished Service Professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, is one of three recipients this year of its prestigious Helen Keller Achievement Awards. The AFB recognizes Asakawa for her life’s work in furthering accessibility research and development, from [...]

Robotics Institute Research Professor Katia Sycara DARPA Project Aims To Use Machine Social Intelligence to Improve Teamwork PITTSBURGH—Personal assistants today can figure out what you are saying, but what if they could infer what you were thinking based on your actions? A team of academic and industrial researchers led by Carnegie Mellon University [...]

In the Human and Robot Partners (HARP) Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, a robot mounted to a table must choose between three candy dishes. The robot — a sleek, multi-jointed black arm — has a camera mounted to its two-fingered gripper. The machine analyzes the eye gaze of a graduate student seated across the table [...]

Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian led a university delegation to this year's World Economic Forum, an annual gathering that brings political, industrial, artistic and educational leaders together to discuss ideas and policy while shaping global agendas. The forum ran from January 21-24. This year's theme, "Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World," recognized that no institution [...]

For the sixth consecutive year, Carnegie Mellon University's EarthTime platform will help leaders at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, visualize data on global challenges such as climate change, poverty and mental health. It's a unique map-based tool that's proven popular at the annual meeting, helping experts from institutions worldwide present data in [...]

Artur Dubrawski Artur Dubrawski is not a critical care physician, but his best friend is. Dubrawski, a research professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, loves talking about disease symptoms with Michael Pinsky, a professor of critical care medicine, cardiovascular disease, bioengineering and more at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. They also [...]

Putting the Power of a Film Director in an Autonomous Drone The autonomous system plans a smooth drone trajectory with a clear view of the target, avoiding occlusions from obstacles, as shown in this time-lapse image. Commercial drone products can tackle some automated tasks, but one thing those systems don't address is filming [...]

Anita Woolley, Cleotilde Gonzalez and Henny Admoni are leveraging their collective expertise to explore how AI can help humans collaborate better. Three Carnegie Mellon University researchers are leveraging their expertise in organizational science, cognitive science and artificial intelligence (AI) to explore how AI can help humans work together better. The collaboration includes lead [...]

Robotics Institute Post-Doc Named Innovation Fellow Susie Cribbs Monday, September 9, 2019 Joe Bartels, a postdoctoral researcher in the Robotics Institute, was named one of three Innovation Fellows by Carnegie Mellon University's Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. Founded in 2015, the Swartz Center works with the CMU community to accelerate the process of bringing research innovations [...]

Team Explorer Performs Impressively at Subterranean Challenge’s Tunnel Circuit PITTSBURGH—Team Explorer from Carnegie Mellon University and Oregon State University deployed robots to autonomously map and search underground mines and outscored 10 competing teams at the initial scored event in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. On four occasions during the eight-day event, each team deployed multiple robots [...]

Professor Srinivasa Narasimhan has agreed to serve as the Interim Director of the Robotics Institute. Srinivasa has established a world-class sensing group in the Robotics Institute and has led the development of numerous award winning imaging technologies with applications in every robotics field. He and his team are currently working on futuristic cameras for non-line-of-sight [...]

Acclaimed computer scientist and AI researcher has led Robotics Institute since 2014 PITTSBURGH—Martial Hebert, a leading researcher in computer vision and robotics, has been named dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s world-renowned School of Computer Science (SCS), effective August 15. Hebert, director of the School’s Robotics Institute since 2014, will lead a school with [...]

NASA Selects Carnegie Mellon, Astrobotic To Build Lunar Robot CMU's Red Whittaker Adds a Third Moon Project to His To-Do List Byron Spice Tuesday, July 2, 2019   NASA has chosen Carnegie Mellon University and Astrobotic to build a rover that will land on the moon as early as 2021. The rover, called MoonRanger, will [...]

New Tool Helps Even Novices Identify Insects Inhabiting Streams, Lakes and Rivers   PITTSBURGH—A new online field guide to aquatic insects in the eastern United States, macroinvertebrates.org, promises to be an important tool for monitoring water quality, enabling even novices to correctly identify freshwater insects inhabiting rivers, lakes and streams. Carnegie Mellon University, working with [...]

PRECOG: PREdiction Conditioned On Goals in Visual Multi-Agent Settings N. Rhinehart, R. McAllister, K. M. Kitani, S. Levine Best Paper, ICML 2019 Workshop on AI for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2019 Workshop home page.

“Neural RGB-> D Sensing: Depth and Uncertainty from a Video Camera,” by Chao Liu; Jinwei Gu; Kihwan Kim; Srinivasa G Narasimhan; Jan Kautz http://openaccess.thecvf.com/…/Liu_Neural_RGBrD_Sensing_Dep… “Shapes and Context; In-the-wild Image Synthesis & Manipulation, “Aayush Bansal; Yaser Sheikh; Deva Ramanan http://openaccess.thecvf.com/…/Bansal_Shapes_and_Context_In… “A Theory of Fermat Paths for Non-Line-of-Sight Shape Reconstruction,” by Shumian Xin; Sotiris Nousias; Kyros Kutulakos; [...]

Congratulations Shumian Xin, Ioannis Gkioulekas, Aswin Sankaranarayanan and Srinivasa Narasimhan and their U. Toronto colleagues for their CVPR Best Paper Award “A theory of Fermat Paths for Non-Line-of-Sight Shape Reconstruction” (out of ~5000 submitted papers). An amazing paper on non line of sight sensing. Read it: Here          

Non-Line-of-Sight Technique Can Spot Washington’s Profile on a Quarter PITTSBURGH—Computer vision researchers have demonstrated they can use special light sources and sensors to see around corners or through gauzy filters, enabling them to reconstruct the shapes of unseen objects. The researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Toronto and University College London said this [...]

New Funding Will Advance Technology for Eventual Moon Mission PITTSBURGH—NASA has approved a $2 million research initiative for Carnegie Mellon University roboticists to develop technologies necessary for robots to explore pits on the moon — the lunar equivalent of sinkholes — which might provide access to shelter and resources that could sustain future lunar missions. [...]

CMU Becomes Space-Faring University With Payloads Aboard Astrobotic Lander PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University is going to the moon, sending a robotic rover and an intricately designed arts package that will land in July 2021. The four-wheeled robot is being developed by a CMU team led by William “Red” Whittaker, professor in the Robotics Institute. Equipped with [...]

By Michael Henninge As the house lights rise in the O'Reilly Theater, actress Jill Tanner begins her performance as the titular character in the show "Marjorie Prime." She's dressed casually, and speaking to a much younger man in a full suit — a holographic representation of her late husband. He's a youthful, AI version of [...]

Martial Hebert, Director, Robotics Institute Tom M. Mitchell, Founders University Professor, Interim Dean, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University announced today that Martial Hebert has agreed to serve an additional five year term as Director of the Robotics Institute.

Finalist in Global Learning XPRIZE Lets Kids Teach Themselves Reading, Writing, Math     PITTSBURGH—RoboTutor LLC, a team based at Carnegie Mellon University that was a finalist in the $15 million Global Learning XPRIZE, has announced that its educational apps will be used to teach 10,000 children basic reading, writing and mathematical skills in the [...]

Researchers at multiple universities are developing and researchering potential uses for robots in industries such as inspection, medical, and automotive. By Tanya M. Anandan Robotic Industries Association (RIA) and Robotics Online April 26, 2019 Courtesy: Carnegie Mellon University/RIA Several universities are driving robotics research and continue to attract and recruit renowned faculty to their robotics [...]

Smell MyCity app leverages data and technology to empower citizens to track air pollution in their communities and become advocates for better air quality BURLINGTON, VT / LOUISVILLE, KY – March 28, 2019 – Seventh Generation, a leading household and personal care products company and pioneer in the environmentally conscious products space, today announced a [...]

Honor Recognizes Excellence in Robotics, Service to Humankind Byron Spice Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Howie Choset, the Kavčić-Moura Professor of Computer Science, will receive the 2019 Engelberger Robotics Award for Education. Howie Choset, the Kavčić-Moura Professor of Computer Science, will receive the prestigious 2019 Engelberger Robotics Award for Education. The award recognizes his [...]

Mission in Chile's Atacama Desert Will Aid Search for Life on Mars Byron Spice Thursday, February 28, 2019 An autonomous rover designed and built by the Robotics Institute drilled into the soil of the Atacama Desert in 2013 and discovered unusual, highly specialized microbes. An autonomous rover named Zoë, designed and built by [...]

By: Byron Spice Illah Nourbakhsh, the K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies, is one of 18 newly elected Hastings Center Fellows. llah Nourbakhsh, the K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies, is one of 18 newly elected Hastings Center Fellows, The Hastings Center announced today. The Hastings Center, a nonpartisan, [...]

How can technology help in the supply chain? Peggy and Matt Mason, chief scientist, Berkshire Grey, and professor, Carnegie Mellon University, dive into the topic of robotic manipulation. He says there are a lot of problems and great applications for robotic manipulation and details how robotic manipulation works in conjunction with the sensory input. He [...]

By automating assessments of road conditions, RoadBotics could help cities save time and money By Prachi Patel, IEEE Spectrum Image: RoadBoticsRoadbotics’ software gives each road segment an aggregate score from Level 1 to Level 5 based on the quantity, extent, and severity of problems it spots. ’Tis the season for potholes. When temperatures drop, the [...]

Automated system will fashion concrete mats to protect Mississippi River levees Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center has built a mat-sinking robot at their Lawrenceville facility, as seen here on December 7, 2018. PITTSBURGH—A yellow, steel structure built this fall in front of Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) will [...]

Her Home Page Reader gives internet access to blind and visually impaired computer users   Chieko Asakawa, the IBM Distinguished Service Professor in the Robotics Institute and an IBM Fellow at IBM Research, is among 19 innovators who will be inducted this year into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.   Asakawa, who came to [...]

By Ben Craw Today there are about 2 million industrial robots being used around the world, and that number is growing exponentially. Robots are doing everything from welding cars and making Adidas sneakers to farming lettuce and exploring Mars. Global sales have doubled over the past five years, according to the International Federation of Robotics. [...]

Tom Vander Ark Contributor Forbes Education I write about the future of learning, work and human development. Dec 12, 2018, 05:00am Amon Millner, Olin CollegeTom Vander Ark Machines that learn are reshaping lives and livelihoods. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the most important change force in modern society, but it remains common for high school [...]

By Patty Tascarella  – Senior Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times Dec 10, 2018, 8:15am EST Detroit will use a Pittsburgh startup's technology to drive better roads. Detroit will use a Pittsburgh-based startup’s artificial intelligence pavement inspection technology to assess the city’s 2,600 centerline mile road network in 2019. RoadBotics on Monday said that Detroit additionally [...]

December 6, 2018, 6:00 AM EST By Max Chafkin Bloomberg Businessweek Berkshire Grey’s machines can pick, pack, and ship most items of 5 pounds or less. Robots do the job of human pickers at a Berkshire Grey lab. Photographer: Tony Luong for Bloomberg Businessweek In an enormous space at an undisclosed U.S. location, [...]

The Crusher combat robot vehicle rolls over a car on a test range last month at White Sands Missle Range in New Mexico (Defense Armed Research Projects Agency/CMU) Dec 3, 2018 Bill Schackner Pittsburgh Post-Gazettte The Army plans to set up headquarters for its new Artificial Intelligence Task Force on the campus of [...]

A wheel that can transform into a triangular track, developed by Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is a winner of a Popular Science “Best of What’s New” Award for 2018. The reconfigurable wheel-track can transform from one mode to the other in less than [...]

By Ken Hocke WorkBoat.com on November 20, 2018 Bristol Harbor Group rendering The Army Corps of Engineers Marine Design Center (MDC) will soon release a sources sought notice for the construction of a 188’x74’x10′ deck barge for its Mat Sinking Unit (MSU) located on the Mississippi River. The mat boat is to be built to [...]

by Tanya M. Anandan, Contributing Editor Robotic Industries Association Posted 10/30/2018 Tomorrow’s robotics are taking shape in today’s labs. From package delivery robots and self-driving cars, to surgical snakes and search and rescue robots, the innovations have profound implications. A year, 3 years, or maybe 5 to 10 years down the road, they could be [...]

Shape-Shifting Tires, Digital Driving Assistants Could Enable Safe Driving Over All Kinds of Terrain Byron Spice  Monday, October 29, 2018 NREC has developed a vehicle with wheels that transform into tracks on the fly and a digital assistant that helps drivers find the safest, surest route across steep terrain as part of DARPA's Ground X-Vehicle [...]

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced that Keenan Crane, assistant professor of computer science and robotics, is one of 18 recipients of 2018 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. The fellowship recognizes innovative early-career researchers and includes $875,000 to aid in each fellow’s research for five years. Crane’s research explores how the shapes [...]

Modularity will be key to robotic exploration of caves, tunnels, underground structures Team leaders Matt Travers and Sebastian Scherer guide CMU's Subterranean Challenge team as they begin work on August 27, 2018. CMU is one of the teams being funded by DARPA in the challenge, a $2 million contest where autonomous robots are used [...]

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By Patrick Marshall        Aug 13, 2018 Scientists at the Army Research Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University's  Robotics Institute are teaching robots how to be better mission partners to soldiers -- starting with how to find their way with minimal human intervention. Given that autonomous vehicles have been navigating streets in many U.S. [...]

Zach Quinto on In Search Of The Friday Aug. 10 episode of the HISTORY series “In Search Of,” hosted by actor and Carnegie Mellon University alum Zachary Quinto, will feature a segment that was shot last year at the CMU Robotics Institute. In the segment, Quinto talked with Nathan Michael, assistant research professor [...]

  The Robotics Institute’s David Kohanbash, principal systems/software engineer, and William “Red” Whittaker, professor of robotics, discuss how a tablet can be used to launch the RadPiper uranium-detection robot with Rodrigo V. Rimando Jr., director of technology development for DOE's Office of Environmental Management, and Charles Allyn, a non-destructive assay technician with Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth. [...]

  Deep reinforcement learning makes basketball video games look more realistic   Basketball players need lots of practice before they master the dribble, and it turns out that’s true for computer-animated players as well. By using deep reinforcement learning, players in video basketball games can glean insights from motion capture data to sharpen their dribbling [...]

In the sixth episode of Schooled in AI, David Held, assistant professor at The Robotics Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, talks about why it's important for robots to operate in a changing environment. In this episode, you'll hear Held talk about: Why uncertainty presents a big challenge to robots operating [...]

              New Mon Valley Breathe Cams Document Sources of Visual Pollution   PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab is using a new network of cameras to provide 24-hour monitoring of visible air pollution from industrial sources in the Monongahela Valley. The network is being activated today in conjunction with the [...]

Autonomous systems need to predict, monitor, judge their own performance Xiang Zhi Tan, a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute, works with a Baxter robot, part of a multi-university research program to enable robots to assess their own performance at tasks. PITTSBURGH—In a parallel to how “The Little Engine That Could” once chanted, [...]

  We Can Be is a podcast with The Heinz Endowments’ Grant Oliphant featuring leaders as they share the often moving, sometimes funny and always inspiring accounts of how they came to believe that together we can be a healthier, smarter, and more creative and just community. Podcast Link

The Robotics Institute’s multi-jointed Snakebot robot, which searched for earthquake survivors in Mexico City last fall, has been named Ground Rescue Robot of the Year by the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR). CRASAR, an independent, not-for-profit research group, presented its first-ever Disaster Robotics Awards on April 14 as part of National Robotics Week. [...]

Illah Nourbakhsh, professor of robotics and director of the CREATE Lab, will be one of two recipients of new Carnegie Mellon University professorships created with funding from the K&L Gates Endowment for Ethics and Computational Technologies. Nourbakhsh will be the first recipient of the K&L Gates Professorship in Ethics and Computational Technologies. Molly Wright Steenson, [...]

ISR’s Tom Pope Cited For Mentoring Team Photo of GoS FIRST Chairman's Award     The Girls of Steel Robotics team and their robot, Clyde, made it to the semi-finals of the FIRST® Robotics Competition Greater Pittsburgh Regional March 22-24 and took home several awards, including the prestigious Chairman’s Award. The team, sponsored [...]

CMU Researchers Foresee Machines Capable of On-Demand Knitting   PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have developed a system that can translate a wide variety of 3-D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions that enable a computer-controlled knitting machine to automatically produce those shapes.   Researchers in the Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab have used the system to produce [...]

Office of Naval Research Project Wins Howard Hughes Award   The Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System (AACUS) team developed and successfully demonstrated a fully autonomous helicopter flight capability.     AHS International, The Vertical Flight Society, has announced the winner of its 2018 Howard Hughes Award is an Office of Naval Research (ONR) autonomous helicopter [...]

Carnegie Mellon’s radiation-measuring robots go where humans cannot   PITTSBURGH—A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the U.S. Department of Energy’s former uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio, to identify uranium deposits on pipe walls.   The CMU robot has demonstrated [...]

Airviz, the Robotics Institute spinoff that markets the Speck indoor air quality monitor, has announced that Speck is now compatible with the first-ever Bluetooth-enabled air filter for home furnaces and air conditioning systems. The Filtrete-brand Smart Air Filter, made by 3M, includes Bluetooth-enabled pressure sensor that, when paired with the Filtrete Smart App, notifies users [...]

by Taylor Soper on March 2, 2018 at 4:00 am   GeekWire is putting its own HQ2 in Pittsburgh for the month of February 2018 — reporting on the people, technologies and ideas transforming the industrial city into an innovation powerhouse. The Girls of Steel team after a recent robot scrimmage. (Photo via Girls [...]

NSF Awards $10 Million to Interdisciplinary Researchers at Five Universities By Byron Spice Monday, February 26, 2018 Computational illumination and imaging approaches developed at CMU produce images of different body parts that show features up to two millimeters deep. Researchers expect new techniques will enable images of structures at least 10 times deeper. [...]

BY TODD BISHOP on February 22, 2018 at 5:00 am GeekWire is putting its own HQ2 in Pittsburgh for the month of February 2018 — reporting on the people, technologies and ideas transforming the industrial city into an innovation powerhouse. Red Whittaker, founder and director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Field Robotics Center, with Cave Crawler, a robot developed to [...]

By Byron Spice       Thursday, February 22, 2018   In this Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 photo, Abhinav Gupta stands near one of the computer clusters used in his research at one of the computer server areas on campus at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The school is letting hundreds of computers run constantly to [...]

By Abby Simmons         Tuesday, February 20, 2018    The Robotics Institute's Howie Choset is among four CMU faculty members who will receive new Kavčić-Moura professorships. Robotics Institute faculty member Howie Choset is among four Carnegie Mellon University faculty members appointed to new Kavčić-Moura Professorships — designed to provide sustained, long-term support [...]

An autonomous vehicle crosses one of Pittsburgh's iconic bridges. Gene J. Puskar/AP   Richard Florida  Feb 8, 2018 Pittsburgh’s mayor talks about the city becoming the capital of autonomous vehicles and the challenge of including everyone in its renewal. Pittsburgh Mayor William (Bill) Peduto, who just began his second term this year, has [...]

  DALLAS--(Business Wire)--ROBO Global, creator of the first benchmark index tracking the global robotics and automation market, has increased the depth and expertise of its advisory board with the addition of Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Professor of Robotics at The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Nourbakhsh, who is Director of the Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment [...]

By Howard Leff  Source Weekly January 24 2018   Bend's Mel Siegel knows more about self-driving cars than perhaps anyone else in town. He's a Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh—and an authority on the subject. In honor of the transportation issue, Mel answered some questions about the future of ground transportation. [...]

by Christine O’Toole, Pittsburgh Quarterly Higher Education 2018 Winter   In January, Carnegie Mellon University professor Red Whittaker set a goal that had nothing to do with robotics: to best a field of competitors in an indoor rowing race. The ergometer competition, a 2,000-meter battle on stationary machines, marked the first time the 69-​year-​old Whittaker [...]

  Aaron Aupperlee  Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, 11:06 a.m.   Argo AI, a Pittsburgh-based startup developing self-driving technology for Ford, will team up with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Tech to work on computer vision and machine learning technology. Deva Ramanan and Simon Lucey from CMU and James Hays from Georgia Tech will join the [...]

November 8, 2017 7:18 PM By David Highfield [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZHnrC_hojU[/embedyt]   PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Cell phones and computers have dramatically changed our lives. Today’s reality would have seemed like science fiction when many of us were growing up, so what’s next? You may get a good glimpse by visiting Chris Harrison at Carnegie Mellon’s Future [...]

By Patty Tascarella – Senior Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times Boeing Co.’s new venture capital arm has invested in Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy, plus partnering to explore technologies for defense and commercial applications. Near Earth, a spinoff from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, develops software and senor technology enabling aircraft to inspect, map and survey terrain [...]

RI PhD student, Nick Rhinehart, and RI faculty, assistant research professor Kris Kitani, received the Marr Prize Honorable Mention award at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017, for their work on "First Person Activity Forecasting with Online Inverse Reinforcement Learning" Project link

Hazelwood Green Will Be Home For Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute A view of downtown Pittsburgh is visible through the beams of the Hazelwood Green site. The Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute will be one of the anchor tenants of Hazelwood Green, the former Jones & Laughlin Steel site in Hazelwood that is being redeveloped [...]

By Dana Hull - Bloomberg Technology October 19, 2017 Near Earth spun out of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute Aerospace companies increasing support for new technologies   Boeing Co. is investing in Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy, a self-guided drone startup, marking its first financial backing for a company specializing in autonomous technology since establishing the HorizonX venture [...]

Assistant Professor of Robotics Helps Robots Help You By Susie Cribbs Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Henny Admoni once thought she'd be a journalist. Instead, she's the latest addition to the Robotics Institute's faculty — poised to change the way we interact with robots forever.       Henny Admoni thought she'd be a [...]

By Evan Ackerman    IEEE SPECTRUM Posted 13 Oct 2017 | 16:50 GMT Photo: CMUDays after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico City, CMU sent its snake robots in to look for survivors. A few days after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico City last month, Carnegie Mellon University roboticists were contacted to see if their [...]

CMU Professor Is Renowned for Work in Robotic Manipulation PITTSBURGH— Matthew T. Mason, a researcher renowned for his work in robotic manipulation, is the winner of the 2018 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award, one of the top awards in the field of robotics. The IEEE awards committee cited Mason, professor of computer science and robotics [...]

NASA has awarded $100,000 to the Robotics Institute and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory through its Strategic University Research Project program to develop new navigation strategies that would enable future planetary rovers to traverse more complex terrains at higher speeds than now possible. Alonzo Kelly, professor of robotics, and robotics Ph.D. student Venkat Rajagopalan will work [...]

October 9, 2017 by Bill Koenig - Senior Editor, ADVANCEDMANUFACTURING.ORG A Caterpillar autonomous vehicle in operation at a mine. (Caterpillar photo)   Autonomous technology well established in mining, agriculture The auto industry’s biggest current focus is self-driving cars. Established automakers as well as technology companies such as Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are working to develop cars and [...]

50 Years as Carnegie Mellon University › Founder Stories Red Whittaker Pioneer in space, Founder on Earth.

DARPA Urban Challenge Marked Dawn of Self-Driving Vehicles Members and friends of the Tartan Racing Team will gather Oct. 12-14 at Carnegie Mellon University to celebrate UC10, the 10th anniversary of the team's victory in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Urban Challenge self-driving car race. The event, including a keynote address from team leader Red Whittaker, the Fredkin University [...]

By Evan Ackerman IEEE SPECTRUM Posted 27 Sep 2017 CMU’s new gait-generating method means you can teach a dodecapod robot to transition into a nonapod robot that can carry stuff with two arms while using a third to point a camera. Robots that can be physically reconfigured to do lots of different things are, in [...]

Multi-jointed rescue robot gets first experience In live disaster  Carnegie Mellon University researchers last week deployed a snake-like robot to search for trapped survivors in a Mexico City  apartment building that collapsed in the7.1-magnitude earthquake that shook the city Sept. 19. The multi-jointed snakebot provided rescue workers with a video feed from two different passes [...]

  “Roboburgh,” has been used by the Post-Gazette 42 times. Courtney Linder Pittsburgh Post-Gazette clinder@post-gazette.com SEP 26, 2017 So the story goes, Mayor Bill Peduto began using #Roboburgh whenever he cited technology articles on Twitter. It seemed trendy and possibly even hip or, to some, dorky. The goal seemed to be to give Pittsburgh’s tech [...]

  Jessica Hodgins, professor of computer science and robotics, has been elected as president of SIGGRAPH, the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. SIGGRAPH convenes the premier annual conference on computer graphics, which is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals. The SIGGRAPH president serves a three-year [...]

System Allows Extra Time For Pedestrians With Disabilities Photos from Downtown Pittsburgh and East Liberty intersections featuring Smart Cities traffic technology for the upcoming Marketing effort. PITTSBURGH— Smart traffic signals that are designed to improve the flow of traffic also could help pedestrians with visual or other disabilities safely cross streets, or even [...]

Stacey Federoff Digital Producer Pittsburgh Business Times Sep 19, 2017, 2:25pm EDT Smart traffic signals could communicate with pedestrians’ smartphones to change lights in real time, thanks to a two-year project underway at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. A $2 million grant from the Federal Highway Administration will help fund work led by CMU robotics [...]

Critical instant analysis, a new process for improved structural optimization in additive manufacturing, unveils the possibility of designing products that are lighter in weight and cheaper to produce. Credit: Burak Kara and Erva Ulu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University September 18, 2017 by Nathan Healy, PHYS.ORG It's never long before the [...]

Learning tool will be field-tested in Africa for 15 months By Shilo Rea & Byron Spice RoboTutor LLC, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff created by Professor Jack Mostow, was named one of five Global Learning XPRIZE finalists for its RoboTutor software, educational technology that teaches children basic math and reading skills. The XPRIZE competition is [...]

Original story with video World Headquarters To Be Built In Strip District September 18, 2017 7:49 PM By Andy Sheehan PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Move over Uber, there’s a new self-driving kid in town. Ford Motor Company is taking a $1 billion stake in a Pittsburgh start-up called Argo AI, now one of four local companies [...]

Joseph Dussault Staff, The Christian Science Monitor September 11, 2017 — Single-purpose, assistive devices have given way to more accessible – and affordable – apps. Perhaps just as valuable is the glimpse into the capable lives of people with limited vision that apps like BlindWays offer. When asked how technology might improve the lives of [...]

The maturity of automated technology used in manufacturing is all over the map, says Carnegie Mellon Prof. Howie Choset, but there are concrete ways to fix that. By Stephanie Condon for Between the Lines | September 4, 2017 -- 12:00 GMT (05:00 PDT) | Topic: Innovation There's strong demand in the business world for robotics, [...]

Each summer, dozens of talented undergraduates from around the world come to Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute for its Summer Scholars program, an intensive 11-week program introducing them to state-of-the-art robotics research. This summer, CMU RISS is launching a partnership with DJI, the world's leading company in the civilian-drone industry. DJI directors and engineers partnered [...]

Angel Jordan, who played a pivotal role in establishing Carnegie Mellon University as one of the leading engineering, computer science and robotics institutions in the world, died Friday. He was 86. Jordan, University Professor Emeritus and a member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering, served as CMU’s provost from 1983 to 1991, and was [...]

Congressman Mike Doyle placed each of the Girls of Steel names in a Congressional Record for the 7th consecutive year. It also includes George Kantor's name for winning the FIRST Woodie Flowers Award.

Chen Sun, Abhinav Shrivastava, Saurabh Singh and Abhinav Gupta of Carnegie Mellon and Google We have explored the effect of model complexity and GPU power over time but dataset size has remained the same. Full story

3D Printing Industry The novel concept for these retractible structures has been explored extensively, for the first time, in a study by researchers Christopher Yu, Keenan Crane and Stelian Coros of Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania. Telescoping shapes defined at Carnegie Mellon. Image via Yu, Crane & Coros Full story

Robots in the "kid-size" (really around 16 inches tall) Robocup soccer league face off. These "Rhoban" bots, built by students at the University of Bordeaux, took first place in their division in the 2017 competition. (Courtesy Rhoban) One of the most important changes in 2017 was the addition of a mixed-team challenge, says Joydeep [...]

Mike Wagner, NREC, on panel of Unmanned Systems Caucus roundtable Chaired by Congressman Lipinski (Ranking Member, House Science Subcommittee on Research and Technology). Greg Winfree formerly Asst Sec., now with TAMU TII, is on right.

Another RI Spinoff, Roadbotics, Earns Runner-up Prize. The Surtrac intelligent traffic signaling system developed by the Robotics Institute and spun off as Rapid Flow Technologies is the winner of the Smart Cities Global Innovation Award for Mobility organized by France’s Le Monde newspaper. The leader of the Surtrac project, Stephen Smith, research professor of robotics, [...]

Zulhasnan Rafique, the Malaysian ambassador to the United States, gets a close look at the CHIMP robot at the National Robotics Engineering Center during a May 23 visit arranged by the U.S. State Department. U.S. State Department Brings Diplomats to Pittsburgh More than 30 ambassadors and their spouses visited the National Robotics Engineering [...]

The smartphone app for navigating the blind, NavCog, developed jointly by CMU and IBM was field tested in Mitsui Fudosan’s COREDO Muromachi shopping park in Tokyo, Japan. NavCog was developed by the Robotic Institute's Cognitive Assistance Lab (CAL) led by Chieko Asakawa (Distinguished Service Professor) and Kris Kitani (Assistant Research Professor). CMU-IBM Smartphone App NavCog [...]

The NavCog project of the Cognitive Assistance Lab) received the best technical paper award at the 14th International Web for All Conference in Perth, Australia with the paper "Achieving Practical and Accurate Indoor Navigation for People with Visual Impairments". Congratulations to the authors, Dragan Ahmetovic, Masayuki Murata, Cole Gleason, Erin Brady, Hironobu Takagi, Kris Kitani [...]

WASHINGTON — Seventeen years after LTV Steel closed its Hazelwood operation, its site is being prepared for new life as a catalyst for the region’s — and the nation’s — next big industrial revolution. A new nonprofit offshoot of Carnegie Mellon University is in negotiations with foundations that own the former industrial site known as [...]