Mallory Lindahl, Author at Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

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Robotics Institute Ph.D. Awarded 2024 Google Fellowship

Sheng-Yu Wang, fifth-year Ph.D. at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. Sheng-Yu Wang, fifth-year Ph.D. student at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, has received a Google Fellowship for his work in data attribution for text-to-image models. Wang is advised by Jun-Yan Zhu, assistant professor at the Robotics Institute.  The Google Ph.D. Fellowship [...]

CMU, NREC Researchers Earn Best Paper Award at SSRR 2024

Researchers from the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab (RISLab) at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute and the National Robotics and Engineering Center (NREC) have received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) 2024 for their work titled Rapid quadrotor navigation in diverse environments using an onboard depth camera. SSRR hosts [...]

Takeo Kanade Among 2024 John Scott Award Recipients

Takeo Kanade, professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, has received the 2024 John Scott Award alongside two other world leaders in robotics research. The John Scott Award, established in 1815 by Scottish chemist and pharmacist John Scott to honor Benjamin Franklin, recognizes work that has reshaped the field of robotics and [...]

CMU and Partners Redefine Robotic Perception with NeuralFeels

A research team at Carnegie Mellon teamed up with Meta FAIR, the University of California, Berkeley, Technical University Dresden in Germany and the Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI) to propose NeuralFeels, a machine learning model that combines vision and touch sensing on a robot hand to reconstruct and track unseen objects.  Traditional sensing [...]

CMU Researchers Illuminate New Horizons in Low-Light Robotic Exploration

The framework allows the robot to create photorealistic scene representations in low-light environments. Robots lift heavy loads in warehouses, deliver meals to diners, and even tackle housework. However, a lot of robotic work goes unseen – quite literally.  Robots and autonomous vehicles are routinely deployed for critical tasks such as exploration, inspection, transportation, [...]

MRSD Students Stand Out as Top Swartz Fellowship Recipients

2026 MRSD Swartz Fellows Abhishek Mathur and Gweneth Ge. MRSD students have many things in common. Hardworking, intelligent, and driven, students in the program continually stand out in their projects and industry knowledge that they apply both within and after their time in graduate school. However, several MRSD students share another thing in [...]

Jun-Yan Zhu Named Samsung AI Researcher of the Year

Jun-Yan Zhu, an Assistant Professor at the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, has been selected as a 2024 Samsung AI Researcher of the Year.  Samsung’s AI Researcher of the Year program recognizes five promising researchers under 35 who have made outstanding contributions to artificial intelligence research. The recipients receive $30,000 [...]

CMU, Pitt Researchers Move Forward in Three-Year, $7M DARPA Triage Challenge

Team Chiron, a collaboration between researchers from CMU and the University of Pittsburgh, will compete in the second round of DARPA's Triage Challenge. Team Chiron, a collaboration between researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, will compete in the second round of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Triage Challenge. [...]

Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Look Into The AI Maker Space

Greg Armstrong (manager) and Leonardo Mouta (student worker) calibrate robots in the AI Maker Space. At the Carnegie Mellon University AI Maker Space, interdisciplinary collaboration thrives. Here, a biology student might work alongside a computer science major, while across the room, a business student brainstorms with an artist. The only prerequisite? Curiosity. In [...]

AI Meets Fusion: CMU, Princeton Join Forces to Pursue Clean, Abundant Power

What if the future of energy could be as limitless as the stars? As nuclear fission powers today's reactors, researchers are looking toward nuclear fusion as a cleaner, safer, and long-lasting source of energy.  Nuclear power plants are largely considered as one of the most reliable sources of energy. Inside the plants, reactors use fission [...]

Innovative Framework Drives Autonomous Learning and Task Mastery

Many people learn how to ride a bike at some point in their lives. When children are learning, adults can only guide them to a certain point. A large portion of developing this new skill depends on independent trial and error from the child.  After days of practice, and perhaps a fall or two, children [...]

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Launches the 2024-25 President’s Lecture Series at Carnegie Mellon

On Wednesday, Sept. 18, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai traveled to Carnegie Mellon University to tour research labs, talk with faculty and students about emerging technologies and officially kick off the first President’s Lecture Series event of the new academic year. Pichai’s whirlwind visit concluded in the newly constructed Highmark Center for Health and Wellness, [...]

Deepak Pathak Named to MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 List

Robotics Institute Raj Reddy Assistant Professor Deepak Pathak was named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 35 Innovators Under 35 for his work in self-supervised and adaptive robot learning. MIT’s list highlights emerging leaders who are using technology to tackle crucial problems we face as a society and exploring open scientific questions. Pathak works in [...]

High Schoolers Bring Robots to Life at CMU Feiyue Program

Twenty high school students gathered in huddles across a classroom, each hunched over a computer or fiddling with a small tri-legged robot. In one corner, students attempted to make the robot walk forward, laughing as it fell down after the first few steps. The students were eagerly preparing for the Feiyue Robotics Program showcase, held [...]

VoicePilot Framework Enhances Communication Between Humans and Physically Assistive Robots

Motor impairments currently affect about 5 million people in the United States. Physically assistive robots not only have the potential to help these individuals with daily tasks, they can significantly increase independence, well-being, and quality of life.  Large Language Models (LLMs) that can both comprehend and generate human language and code have been crucial to [...]

CMU Students, Faculty Go Big During Robotics Institute’s Annual Textile Jam

For a few hours on a Friday afternoon, a shrine stood in a lab at the end of a first-floor corridor in Wean Hall. Inside a nearly 9-foot tent, people solved four different puzzles to reveal words that they presented as offerings to automation and craft. One of those puzzles — and arguably the most [...]

Smart Sensing: CMU Researchers Develop Robotic Platform to Boost Corn Crop Health

The robot arm autonomously identifies an optimal stalk and follows a motion sequence to position the stalk inside the gripper. Corn is one of the most essential ingredients in global industry and agriculture. From tortillas, to ethanol, to starch, to alcohol, the plant remains a pillar in several production processes. Measuring the vitality [...]

CMU, Pitt Researchers Compete in Three-Year, $7M DARPA Triage Challenge

Every second matters to emergency medical teams as they approach a mass casualty event and identify who needs immediate treatment. Breakthroughs in medical triage using robotics, artificial intelligence, drones and advanced sensing could save lives by directing medical personnel to people most in need of treatment. Team Chiron, made up of researchers from Carnegie Mellon [...]

Henny Admoni Releases New Children’s Book

From the hallways of hospitals to the farthest reaches of outer space, robots are transforming the way we interact with our world. In her new book “Robots,” Henny Admoni, associate professor at the Robotics Institute, takes young readers on a literary journey through the multiple ways robots can assist humans and shape our future.  Neon [...]

Watch Out IKEA: CMU Researchers Eye Knitted Furniture

Yuichi Hirose has a dream — a dream that someday everyone will have access to a machine capable of knitting furniture. This machine wouldn't just knit the furniture's exterior fabric, but would use knitting to fashion solid three-dimensional chairs, tables and other objects. Tired of that love seat? Just unravel it and reuse the yarn [...]

Autonomous Aerial Robots Communicate, Prioritize Rooms in Multiroom Exploration

Robotics Institute researchers have developed a new method for autonomous aerial robot exploration and multirobot coordination inside abandoned buildings that could help first responders gather information and make better-informed decisions after a disaster. An estimated 100 earthquakes worldwide cause damage each year. This damage includes collapsed buildings, downed electrical lines and more. For first responders, [...]

Ji Zhang Receives 2024 Test of Time Award

Carnegie Mellon systems scientist Ji Zhang has received the prestigious Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2024 Test of Time Award for his work on LOAM: Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-Time. RSS introduced the Test of Time Award to acknowledge papers published at least ten years ago that had the greatest impact on robotics design [...]

Miller and co-authors receive award at CVPR 2024

Computer science PhD student Bailey Miller and co-authors Hanyu Chen, Alice Lai, and Ioannis Gkioulekas have received an honorable mention for best student paper at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, held in Seattle, Washington. Their paper, titled, “Objects as volumes: A stochastic geometry view of opaque solids,” develops a theory [...]

Research Group to Host CMU Vision-Language-Autonomy Challenge

A research group at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon host the CMU Vision-Language-Autonomy Challenge, bringing researchers together at the intersection of computer vision, natural language understanding, and navigation autonomy. The challenge aims to progress computer vision and AI-research in real-world systems. The team has created an award-winning navigation autonomy system over the last [...]

CMU Class Builds Satellite Bound for Earth’s Orbit

It's spring on the Carnegie Mellon University campus, and students divided into teams focused on communications, guidance navigation and control (GNC), and vision have their heads together trying to simulate how a satellite collects and transmits usable images. Across the room, their peers on the avionics team have laid out rows of circuit boards and [...]

Takeo Kanade to Receive Frontiers of Knowledge Award

SCS Founders University Professor Takeo Kanade will receive the BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) Foundation's Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies for developing the mathematical foundations for computer vision and robot perception. Learn more and watch the livestream of the presentation ceremony from Bilbao, Spain via the BBVA Foundation's website on Thursday, [...]

Swift and Secure: CMU Researchers Develop Collision-Free, High-Speed Robots

Researchers at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute have introduced a learning-based control framework called Agile But Safe (ABS). The framework– developed and programmed by Tairan He, Chong Zhang, Wenli Xiao, Guanqi He, Changliu Liu, Guanya Shi– enables quadrupedal robots to move in a collision-free manner in confined indoor and outdoor environments. When programmed with ABS, [...]