Research From Robotics Ph.D. Maps Emotions to Robotic Behavior The pros make it look easy, but making a movie with a drone can be anything but. First, it takes skill to fly the often expensive pieces of equipment smoothly and without crashing. And once you've mastered flying, there are camera angles, panning speeds, trajectories and [...]

Foundation Announce Historic Partnership to Accelerate CMU’s Science and Technology Leadership and the Transformation of Hazelwood Green Foundation approves record $150M grant to support cutting-edge science building on campus, and new robotics center and advanced manufacturing institute at Hazelwood Green Carnegie Mellon University and the Richard King Mellon Foundation today announced that the two long-time [...]

Wheels tested at CMU are driven on red planet By Jason Maderer Email Wearing 3D glasses and sitting at the flight operations console in Pasadena, California, Carnegie Mellon University graduate Vandi Verma (pictured at right) studies the contours and rocks that litter a barren landscape no human has ever visited. With a series of keystrokes and careful [...]

The Carnegie Mellon University team sending a tiny rover to the moon in 2021 has invited more people along for the ride. The Iris lunar rover team launched a crowdfunding campaign this week to raise $50,000 to help with the final costs of their lunar mission. Anyone who donates to the project will have their [...]

Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab and the grassroots advocacy group Allegheny County Clean Air Now (ACCAN) are winners of an inaugural Constellation Prize for their collaboration on the Shenango Channel, an effort to highlight pollutants from a now-defunct coke works near Pittsburgh. The Constellation Prize was created by a group of engineers and social scientists [...]

"LVS Valid" The message would sound cryptic to most people, but for Andrew Johnson, a principal robotics system engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, receiving it from Mars on Thursday will mean everything. It will mean that the lander vision system developed by his team worked properly and that NASA's Perseverance rover is one step [...]

Machine Learning Identifies Precursors of Engine Failure   A MH-60 helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment transports role players from the battlefield during Invincible Sentry 2019 near Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha, Qatar, March 22. Invincible Sentry is an annual training exercise used by United States Central Command to validate subordinate [...]

A NASA mission slated for launch on Friday will place three tiny satellites into low-Earth orbit, where they will demonstrate how satellites might track and communicate with each other, setting the stage for swarms of thousands of small satellites that can work cooperatively and autonomously. Zac Manchester, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics [...]

Takeo Kanade, U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor in the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department, was elected last month as a member of the Japan Academy, an organization that recognizes researchers with the most distinguished records of academic and scientific achievement. Earlier last year, Kanade was named a Person of Cultural Merit in Japan [...]

Abhinav Gupta, associate professor in the Robotics Institute, is the winner of the 2020 J.K. Aggarwal Prize, which is presented every two years by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) to a scientist under age 40 who has had a major impact on computer vision, pattern recognition and image processing. The IAPR is honoring [...]