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Carnegie Mellon Tool Automatically Turns Math Into Pictures
Visualizations Poised to Enrich Teaching, Scientific Communication PITTSBURGH— Some people look at an equation and see a bunch of numbers and symbols; others see beauty. Thanks to a new tool created at Carnegie Mellon University, anyone can now translate the abstractions of mathematics into[...]
Temel Selected as WEF Young Scientist
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Near Earth Autonomy receives NASA contract
By Julia Mericle – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times NASA awarded Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy a contract to develop drone systems for industrial infrastructure inspection, according to a news release. The company said current methods are resource heavy and dangerous for workers. Neart Earth Autonomy aims to[...]
CMU’s Iris Lunar Rover Meets Milestone for Flight
Carnegie Mellon University students who designed and built a small, boxy robot, called Iris, have achieved a major milestone: their robot passed its critical design review by NASA and is on track to land on the moon in the fall of 2021. “We are moving[...]
COVID-19 Should Be Wake-Up Call for Robotics Research
Robots could perform some of the “dull, dirty and dangerous” jobs associated with combating the COVID-19 pandemic, but that would require many new capabilities not currently being funded or developed, an editorial in the journal Science Robotics argues. The editorial, published today and signed by[...]
EarthTime Focuses on the COVID-19 Threat
What Can Cities, Businesses and Civic Groups Do About Pandemics? Political scientist and urban specialist Robert Muggah has worked with the Robotics Institute’s CREATE Lab to use the lab’s EarthTime platform to examine the threat of pandemics such as COVID-19 and ponder how governments and[...]