Twenty Lakota high school students from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota will learn how Carnegie Mellon University’s GigaPan robotic camera can help them document their community during National Geographic’s Pine Ridge Photo Camp.
The GigaPan School Exchange, a 21st century “pen pal” program, established by Carnegie Mellon University’s Global Connection Program in partnership with the UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE), will expand this fall.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced Distinguished Service Professor of Robotics Kaigham (Ken) Gabriel as the new deputy director.
Six Carnegie Mellon students and recent alumni spent the summer working on a unique internship that took many of them all the way to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Adrien Treuille, an assistant professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University who specializes in real-time computer simulation techniques, has been recognized by Technology Review magazine as one of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35.
"BowGo," a high-flying pogo stick developed by the Robotics Institute's Ben Brown, will be used by extreme pogo enthusiasts at their annual gathering, Pogopalooza, which will be in Pittsburgh Aug. 19-22.
RI graduate student Tom Stepleton was interviewed on the July 14 edition of NPR's All Things Considered regarding the spelling problem he detected in the Grant Building's Morse code beacon.
MIT Technology Review reports on work at Carnegie Mellon University to use advanced vision systems to help unmanned aerial vehicles detect airborne obstacles and help achiever greater autonomy.
Bossa Nova Robotics, a 2005 spinoff from the Robotics Institute, came to campus to unveil to the news media its first commercial products – a pair of toy robots called Prime-8 and Penbo.
Astrobotic Technology Inc. has begun testing a robot, developed in collaboration with the Robotics Institute, that will compete in a NASA contest for excavating simulated Moon dirt.