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 [...]

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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 [...]