Carnegie Mellon University’s Field Robotics Center (FRC) and the PghTech Women Network™ have launched an all-girl robotics team, girlsFIRST, which will compete in a FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) regional event in spring 2011.
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Carnegie Mellon spin-off re2 Inc., a Lawrenceville company that specializes in intelligent modular manipulation systems, will host the second meeting of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Robotics Cluster, a forum for academic and entrepreneurial roboticists, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 16.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a 17-month, $988,000 contract to Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute to develop an autonomous flight system for the Transformer (TX) Program, which is exploring the feasibility of a military ground vehicle that could transform into a vertical-take-off-and-landing (VTOL) air vehicle.
The Pittsburgh Business Times reports on work at Carnegie Mellon University to apply ro robotics to the specialty agriculture community, including the grape industry.
Two hundred scientists, educators and students will come together at the Fine Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science Nov. 11-13 at Carnegie Mellon University to explore how science research and education can best use new technologies for creating and analyzing large digital images containing billions of pixels.
DreamWorks has announced that Steven Spielberg will direct “Robopocalypse,” a movie about a robot uprising based on an upcoming novel by Daniel H. Wilson, who earned his PhD from the Robotics Institute in 2005.
Google Inc.'s autonomous vehicle project has achieved a milestone for self-driving vehicles, with eight cars logging more than 140,000 miles on public roads with minimal human input. Current and former Carnegie Mellon students, faculty and staff have made large contributions as part of the Google team.
Major League Baseball has created a web site, TagOramic, that features GigaPan images of crowds at baseball post-season games that link to Facebook, where fans can tag themselves, their friends and celebrities in the images. The images are created with GigaPan Systems' EPIC Pro camera system. GigaPan technology was developed by NASA and the Robotics Institute's CREATE Lab.