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.
By STEVEN KURUTZ JULY 22, 2017, The New York Times PITTSBURGH — In 2015, Monocle magazine, a favorite read of the global hipsterati, published an enthusiastic report on Lawrenceville, the former blue-collar neighborhood here filled with cafes, hyped restaurants and brick rowhouses being renovated by flippers. Last year, in a much-publicized development, Uber began testing [...]
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. Many of these students, however, have never built a robot as an undergrad. This year, the Robotics Institute teamed with UBTech Education, a [...]
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 [...]