The event is organized as part of AI for Good - the United Nations' leading action-oriented, global, and inclusive platform on ethical AI. The webinar will be held Tuesday, November 30 at 16:00 CET. More information https://aiforgood.itu.int/.../robots-saving-lives-in.../

CMU Alum Matthew Johnson-Roberson To Head Institute in January   Much has changed since Matthew Johnson-Roberson last walked the halls of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. In the 15-plus years since Johnson-Roberson graduated, robots have proven they work. They can navigate city streets and sidewalks.[...]

Aaron Aupperlee Red Whittaker received keys to the City of Pittsburgh from Mayor Bill Peduto on Friday, Nov. 5. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto presented keys to the city to Carnegie Mellon University's Red Whittaker and Andrew Moore on Friday, calling the two “leaders[...]

Congratulations to the authors! Best paper on Agri-Robotics: A Robust Illumination-Invariant Camera System for Agricultural Applications Abhisesh Silwal, Tanvir Parhar, Francisco Yandun, Harjatin Baweja, and George Kantor Finalist for best conference and best student paper: Ground Encoding: Learned Factor Graph-Based Models for Localizing Ground Penetrating[...]

The DARPA Subterranean or “SubT” Challenge seeks novel approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and search underground environments during time-sensitive combat operations or disaster response scenarios. Team Explorer will be updating their blog over the next few critical days of the final event. Coverage will also[...]

Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science will contribute fundamental and cutting-edge research to a government-led push to bring about life-changing advances through artificial intelligence. The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a $220 million investment in 11 new Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes. School of[...]