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New deep learning algorithms could improve robot sight
In the sixth episode of Schooled in AI, David Held, assistant professor at The Robotics Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, talks about why it's important for robots to operate in a changing environment. In this episode, you'll hear Held talk[...]
CMU Cameras Provide 24-hour Monitoring Of Industrial Sites
New Mon Valley Breathe Cams Document Sources of Visual Pollution PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab is using a new network of cameras to provide 24-hour monitoring of visible air pollution from industrial sources in the Monongahela Valley.[...]
Researchers Seek To Create Self-Assessing Robots
Autonomous systems need to predict, monitor, judge their own performance Xiang Zhi Tan, a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute, works with a Baxter robot, part of a multi-university research program to enable robots to assess their own performance at tasks. PITTSBURGH—In a[...]
Illah Nourbakhsh featured on The Heinz Endowments’ We Can Be podcast
We Can Be is a podcast with The Heinz Endowments’ Grant Oliphant featuring leaders as they share the often moving, sometimes funny and always inspiring accounts of how they came to believe that together we can be a healthier, smarter, and more creative and[...]
Snakebot Named Ground Rescue Robot of the Year
The Robotics Institute’s multi-jointed Snakebot robot, which searched for earthquake survivors in Mexico City last fall, has been named Ground Rescue Robot of the Year by the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR). CRASAR, an independent, not-for-profit research group, presented its first-ever Disaster Robotics[...]
Illah Nourbakhsh Receives the inaugural K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies
Illah Nourbakhsh, professor of robotics and director of the CREATE Lab, will be one of two recipients of new Carnegie Mellon University professorships created with funding from the K&L Gates Endowment for Ethics and Computational Technologies. Nourbakhsh will be the first recipient of the K&L[...]