December 6, 2018, 6:00 AM EST By Max Chafkin Bloomberg Businessweek Berkshire Grey’s machines can pick, pack, and ship most items of 5 pounds or less. Robots do the job of human pickers at a Berkshire Grey lab. Photographer: Tony Luong for Bloomberg Businessweek In an enormous space at an undisclosed U.S. location, [...]
The Crusher combat robot vehicle rolls over a car on a test range last month at White Sands Missle Range in New Mexico (Defense Armed Research Projects Agency/CMU) Dec 3, 2018 Bill Schackner Pittsburgh Post-Gazettte The Army plans to set up headquarters for its new Artificial Intelligence Task Force on the campus of [...]
A wheel that can transform into a triangular track, developed by Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is a winner of a Popular Science “Best of What’s New” Award for 2018. The reconfigurable wheel-track can transform from one mode to the other in less than [...]
By Ken Hocke WorkBoat.com on November 20, 2018 Bristol Harbor Group rendering The Army Corps of Engineers Marine Design Center (MDC) will soon release a sources sought notice for the construction of a 188’x74’x10′ deck barge for its Mat Sinking Unit (MSU) located on the Mississippi River. The mat boat is to be built to [...]
A new report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), co-authored by Robotics Professor Howie Choset, argues that a thriving domestic robotics industry will help to enhance America’s competitivenessin the global economy, especially now that tensions are rising over global trade. The report, available online, suggests that robotics would have the greatest impact in five sectors [...]
Renewed federal grant supports research on transportation for people with disabilities A 10-year partnership between Carnegie Mellon University and the University at Buffalo (UB), to advance physical access and public transportation for people with disabilities, has been extended for another five years. The two universities’ joint Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Accessible Public Transportationhas [...]
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced that Keenan Crane, assistant professor of computer science and robotics, is one of 18 recipients of 2018 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. The fellowship recognizes innovative early-career researchers and includes $875,000 to aid in each fellow’s research for five years. Crane’s research explores how the shapes [...]
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By Patrick Marshall Aug 13, 2018 Scientists at the Army Research Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute are teaching robots how to be better mission partners to soldiers -- starting with how to find their way with minimal human intervention. Given that autonomous vehicles have been navigating streets in many U.S. [...]
Zach Quinto on In Search Of The Friday Aug. 10 episode of the HISTORY series “In Search Of,” hosted by actor and Carnegie Mellon University alum Zachary Quinto, will feature a segment that was shot last year at the CMU Robotics Institute. In the segment, Quinto talked with Nathan Michael, assistant research professor [...]