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AI Meets Fusion: CMU, Princeton Join Forces to Pursue Clean, Abundant Power
What if the future of energy could be as limitless as the stars? As nuclear fission powers today's reactors, researchers are looking toward nuclear fusion as a cleaner, safer, and long-lasting source of energy. Nuclear power plants are largely considered as one of the most[...]
Innovative Framework Drives Autonomous Learning and Task Mastery
Many people learn how to ride a bike at some point in their lives. When children are learning, adults can only guide them to a certain point. A large portion of developing this new skill depends on independent trial and error from the child. After[...]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Launches the 2024-25 President’s Lecture Series at Carnegie Mellon
On Wednesday, Sept. 18, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai traveled to Carnegie Mellon University to tour research labs, talk with faculty and students about emerging technologies and officially kick off the first President’s Lecture Series event of the new academic year. Pichai’s whirlwind visit[...]
Deepak Pathak Named to MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 List
Robotics Institute Raj Reddy Assistant Professor Deepak Pathak was named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 35 Innovators Under 35 for his work in self-supervised and adaptive robot learning. MIT’s list highlights emerging leaders who are using technology to tackle crucial problems we face as[...]
Robots Use Neural Motion Planning To Navigate Challenging Obstacles in Unfamiliar Environments
Neural Motion Planning helps improve how robots react in new environments and perform tasks like removing a book from a shelf cluttered with other items. Humans can grab a book from a shelf with little obvious thought. But it's a complex process for[...]
High Schoolers Bring Robots to Life at CMU Feiyue Program
Twenty high school students gathered in huddles across a classroom, each hunched over a computer or fiddling with a small tri-legged robot. In one corner, students attempted to make the robot walk forward, laughing as it fell down after the first few steps. The students[...]