Faculty Events
Perceiving Objects and Interactions in 3D
Abstract: We observe and interact with myriad of objects in our everyday lives, from cups and bottles to hammers and tennis rackets. In this talk, I will outline our group’s efforts towards understanding these objects and our everyday interactions with them in 3D. I will first focus on scaling 3D prediction for isolated objects across [...]
Geometry Processing and Differential Geometry
Abstract: Basic representations for three-dimensional geometry have a profound effect on what can be achieved downstream, in a variety of disciplines (physical simulation, computational design, geometric learning, etc.). In this talk I will discuss recent efforts in our group to revisit fundamental choices in the way we represent digital geometry, and solve geometric equations. The guiding [...]
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
Faculty Candidate: Wenshan Wang
Title: Towards General Autonomy: Learning from Simulation, Interaction, and Demonstration Abstract: Today's autonomous systems are still brittle in challenging environments or rely on designers to anticipate all possible scenarios to respond appropriately. On the other hand, leveraging machine learning techniques, robot systems are trained in simulation or the real world for various tasks. Due to [...]
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
Promoting Human Creativity with FRIDA: Framework and Robotics Initiative for Developing Arts
ABSTRACT: FRIDA, a reference to the vibrant painter Frida Kahlo, stands for a Framework and Robotics Initiative for Developing Arts to promote human creativity. FRIDA supports intuitive ways for people to collaboratively create artworks including natural language, images, and sounds. Because FRIDA is for real-world arts, our work is uniquely different from digital art tools [...]
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
SCS Master’s Diploma Ceremony followed by Reception
Ceremony: 11:30 a.m. Auditorium, Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum 4141 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Reception: Following ceremony Grand Ballroom, Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum 4141 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
SCS PhD Hooding Ceremony followed by Reception
SCS PhD Hooding Ceremony: 11 a.m. Kresge Theatre, College of Fine ArtsReception: Following ceremony Gates Hillman Center, 6th floor
The President’s Reception in honor of CMU’s Doctoral Candidates
Commencement Ceremony
UG Diploma Ceremony followed by Reception
RI Faculty Social
Please join us for our RI Faculty Social. Heavy appetizers and beverages will be served.
Active Search for Reconnaissance and Rescue
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
TBA
Special RI Seminar
Title: Testing, Analysis, and Specification for Robust and Reliable Robot Software Abstract: Building robust and reliable robotic software is an inherently challenging feat that requires substantial expertise across a variety of disciplines. Despite that, writing robot software has never been easier thanks to software frameworks such as ROS: At its best, ROS allows newcomers to assemble simple, [...]
TBA
Robotics Institute Faculty Retreat
RI Faculty, please hold the date for the 2023 Robotics Institute Faculty Retreat. Invitations and agenda info to follow when it becomes available.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
Robot Learning, Wearable Sensing, and Teleoperation in Pursuit of Robotic Caregivers
Abstract Designing safe and reliable robotic assistance for caregiving is a grand challenge in robotics. A sixth of the United States population is over the age of 65 and in 2014 more than a quarter of the population had a disability. Robotic caregivers could positively benefit society; yet, physical robotic assistance presents several challenges and [...]
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Meeting: Multi-Robot Field Autonomy: A 5 Year Perspective
LIVE DEMO! Come see, hear and witness progress made in developing a heterogeneous (wheeled, legged, etc.) team of field deployable mobile robots. Details will be shared on the history of development of multi-robot autonomy at CMU throughout the previous DARPA Subterranean Challenge, DARPA RACER program, and current ARL projects. There will be an ongoing live and interactive [...]
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
Language: You’ve probably heard of it, read it, written it, gestured it, mimed it… Why can’t robots?
Abstract: Language is how meaning is conveyed between humans, and now the basis of foundation models. By implication, it's the most important modality for all of AGI and will replace the entire robotics control stack as the most important thing for all of us to work on.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
Advanced robotics for manufacturing: challenges and opportunities
Abstract: Presenting projects with ARM Institute (including robot grinding, human-robot collaboration, and modularized manufacturing) and discussing some new opportunities in applying AI and robotics in manufacturing domain.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
Composable Optimization for Robotic Motion Planning and Control
Abstract: Contact interactions are pervasive in real-world robotics tasks like manipulation and walking. However, the non-smooth dynamics associated with impacts and friction remain challenging to model, and motion planning and control algorithms that can fluently and efficiently reason about contact remain elusive. In this talk, I will share recent work from my research group that takes an “optimization-first” [...]
Carnegie Mellon University
AI for Human Mobility
Abstract This talk will describe a series of AI and robotics projects aimed at helping people independently move through cities and buildings. Projects include a deployed personalized transit information app, guide robots for people who are blind, and an integrated AI system that assists blind users with guidance and exploration. Specific findings will be presented [...]
AI-CARING
AI-CARING is an NSF-sponsored institute, led by Georgia Tech, whose mission is to investigate, develop and evaluate AI technologies to help older adults live independently. The Institute focuses on providing reminders to the older adults and alerting caregivers when necessary, assisting older adults with tasks such as meal preparation, motivating them to exercise, providing conversational [...]
Using mechanical intelligence to create adaptable robots
Abstract: Currently deployed robots are primarily rigid machines that perform repetitive, controlled tasks in highly constrained or open environments such as factory floors, warehouses, or fields. There is an increasing demand for more adaptable, mobile, and flexible robots that can manipulate or move through unstructured and dynamic environments. My vision is to create robots that [...]
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Agenda was sent via a calendar invite.