Robot soccer players from Carnegie Mellon University competing in this month’s RoboCup 2010 world championship in Singapore should be able to out-dribble their opponents, thanks to a new algorithm that helps them to predict the ball’s behavior based on physics principles.
The story of Carnegie Mellon's first robotic exchange student is told in a film created by students in the Art, Animation and Technology class taught by the Robotics Institute's Jessica Hodgins and the School of Art's James Duesing.
Takeo Kanade, the U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, has been chosen by the Tateisi Science and Technology Foundation of Japan as the inaugural recipient of its Tateisi Grand Award and Prize.
Hala, a bilingual robot receptionist that is patterned after the roboceptionist at the Robotics Institute, has begun greeting and helping visitors to Carnegie Mellon Qatar.
The Robotics Student Organization 2010 Cool Person Award has been presented to Illah Nourbakhsh in appreciation of his devotion to the Robotics Graduate Programs and its Students.
Marek Michalowski, a Ph.D. student in robotics, and Keepon, an ingratiating robot that looks like a tiny yellow snowman, are the winners of this year’s Smiley Award, presented annually to a Carnegie Mellon University student for innovation in technology-assisted person-to-person communication.
Daniel H. Wilson (CS'03,'04,'05) puts a humorous spin on sibling savagery in “BRO-JITSU: The Martial Art of Sibling Smackdown,” a new book from Bloomsbury USA. See Daniel's Web site
To celebrate National Robotics Week, 10 Apr 2010 - 18 Apr 2010, we are featuring some female professors and graduate students in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon. See the full story at http://women.cs.cmu.edu/robotics/.
Carnegie Mellon University will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its pioneering Robotics Institute and commemorate the first National Robotics Week with special exhibits, lectures and demonstrations April 15-16 in conjunction with the university’s annual Spring Carnival.
Steam evaporating. A shirt creasing. Hair mussed up. Recreating these small, deceivingly complex details of everyday reality is important for constructing virtual worlds that are faithful to perceptions of the real world. A lot of math, physics, and computer theory are inherent in this challenge, but so is poetry, says Adrien Treuille, assistant professor of computer science and robotics. Maybe even some magic is involved, too. Treuille is profiled in the latest issue of Carnegie Mellon Today.Read more here.