Carnegie Mellon University's Iris rover is bolted in and ready for its journey to the moon. The tiny rover passed a huge milestone on Wednesday, Dec. 1, when it was secured to one of the payload decks of Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander, which will deliver it to the moon next year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdwWIVZgC0k "It is [...]
The event is organized as part of AI for Good - the United Nations' leading action-oriented, global, and inclusive platform on ethical AI. The webinar will be held Tuesday, November 30 at 16:00 CET. More information https://aiforgood.itu.int/.../robots-saving-lives-in.../
CMU Alum Matthew Johnson-Roberson To Head Institute in January Much has changed since Matthew Johnson-Roberson last walked the halls of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. In the 15-plus years since Johnson-Roberson graduated, robots have proven they work. They can navigate city streets and sidewalks. They can fly autonomously to inspect bridges, buildings and tunnels. [...]
Aaron Aupperlee Red Whittaker received keys to the City of Pittsburgh from Mayor Bill Peduto on Friday, Nov. 5. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto presented keys to the city to Carnegie Mellon University's Red Whittaker and Andrew Moore on Friday, calling the two “leaders of the fourth industrial revolution.” Peduto, who will leave office [...]
Congratulations to the authors! Best paper on Agri-Robotics: A Robust Illumination-Invariant Camera System for Agricultural Applications Abhisesh Silwal, Tanvir Parhar, Francisco Yandun, Harjatin Baweja, and George Kantor Finalist for best conference and best student paper: Ground Encoding: Learned Factor Graph-Based Models for Localizing Ground Penetrating Radar Alexander Baikovitz, Paloma Sodhi, Michael Dille, Michael Kaess https://www.iros2021.org/awards
Qualcomm has accepted Gengshan Yang and N Dinesh Reddy into its current class of Innovation Fellows for the pair's work on creating computer-generated 3D models of traffic, people, animals and their interactions in cities. They join 15 other projects selected from the hundreds that applied, and will receive $100,000 in funding and mentoring from top Qualcomm engineers. [...]
A CMU team developed a algorithm that could help an autonomous vehicle safely and efficiently navigate narrow, crowded streets like this one. It is a scenario familiar to anyone who has driven down a crowded, narrow street. Parked cars line both sides, and there isn’t enough space for vehicles traveling in both directions [...]
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Facebook AI didn't just teach a robot to walk — they taught it how to learn to walk. The distinction is key. A major hurdle to deploying legged robots, whether with two, four or even more legs, is figuring out how the robot will [...]
Manuela Veloso, a renowned artificial intelligence researcher, computer scientist and roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University, is among the most influential women in engineering, according to a new list compiled by Academic Influence. The list of women includes astronauts, founders and CEOs of well-known technology and Fortune 500 companies, a Nobel laureate, and researchers from around [...]
By Yana Ilieva Email A Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company, Marinus Analytics, won third place and $500,000 in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition, announced Wednesday, June 23, 2021. This XPRIZE is a global competition incentivizing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for radical breakthroughs in problems facing humanity. Marinus Analytics was recognized for its [...]