Carnegie Mellon Researchers Teach Robots To Infer Shapes From Color Images   PITTSBURGH—Kitchen robots are a popular vision of the future, but if a robot of today tries to grasp a kitchen staple such as a clear measuring cup or a shiny knife, it likely[...]

Rogerio Bonatti, a Ph.D. candidate in the Robotics Institute, is one of 10 recipients across North America who will receive Microsoft Research Dissertation Grants to support research for their Ph.D. thesis. Bonatti, who expects to complete his dissertation next year, has focused his research at[...]

Robotics Institute PhD students, Keene Chin, Victoria Dean and Jason Zhang, are amongst the 2020 National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program Recipients. The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees. [...]

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Carnegie Mellon University Associate Research Professor Michael Kaess poses for a portrait with an autonomous submersible robot in the High Bay of Newell Simon Hall on October 22, 2018. Michael Kaess, associate research professor in the Robotics Institute, and Frank Dellaert, a Ph.D.[...]

            NASA's MoonRanger robot will rely on fully autonomous operations during its week-long mission, a level of autonomy that has never been achieved before in such a manner on the moon, says Red Whittaker of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute[...]