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. [...]

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 [...]