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 [...]
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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 [...]