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Carnegie Mellon Team Dives Into DARPA Subterranean Challenge
Modularity will be key to robotic exploration of caves, tunnels, underground structures Team leaders Matt Travers and Sebastian Scherer guide CMU's Subterranean Challenge team as they begin work on August 27, 2018. CMU is one of the teams being funded by DARPA in the[...]
AirLab Carnegie Mellon: Drake “in my feelings” Challenge with #robots #InMyFeelingsChallenge
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Robots learn by ‘following the leader’
By Patrick Marshall Aug 13, 2018 Scientists at the Army Research Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute are teaching robots how to be better mission partners to soldiers -- starting with how to find their way with minimal human intervention. Given[...]
Robotics Institute Featured on Friday’s “In Search Of”
Zach Quinto on In Search Of The Friday Aug. 10 episode of the HISTORY series “In Search Of,” hosted by actor and Carnegie Mellon University alum Zachary Quinto, will feature a segment that was shot last year at the CMU Robotics Institute. In[...]
Robotics Institute Delivers Pipe-Crawling Robot To DOE
The Robotics Institute’s David Kohanbash, principal systems/software engineer, and William “Red” Whittaker, professor of robotics, discuss how a tablet can be used to launch the RadPiper uranium-detection robot with Rodrigo V. Rimando Jr., director of technology development for DOE's Office of Environmental Management,[...]
How a Computer Learns To Dribble: Practice, Practice, Practice
Deep reinforcement learning makes basketball video games look more realistic Basketball players need lots of practice before they master the dribble, and it turns out that’s true for computer-animated players as well. By using deep reinforcement learning, players in video basketball games can[...]