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Girls of Steel Bring Home Awards From FIRST Pittsburgh Regional
ISR’s Tom Pope Cited For Mentoring Team Photo of GoS FIRST Chairman's Award The Girls of Steel Robotics team and their robot, Clyde, made it to the semi-finals of the FIRST® Robotics Competition Greater Pittsburgh Regional March 22-24 and took home[...]
Software Automatically Generates Knitting Instructions for 3-D Shapes
CMU Researchers Foresee Machines Capable of On-Demand Knitting PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have developed a system that can translate a wide variety of 3-D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions that enable a computer-controlled knitting machine to automatically produce those shapes. Researchers in the[...]
Roboticists Share Prestigious Award For Autonomous Helicopter Technology
Office of Naval Research Project Wins Howard Hughes Award The Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System (AACUS) team developed and successfully demonstrated a fully autonomous helicopter flight capability. AHS International, The Vertical Flight Society, has announced the winner of its 2018 Howard Hughes[...]
Pipe-crawling Robot Will Help Decommission DOE Nuclear Facility
Carnegie Mellon’s radiation-measuring robots go where humans cannot PITTSBURGH—A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the U.S. Department of Energy’s former uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio, to identify uranium[...]
Smart Air Filter Links to Speck Indoor Air Quality Monitor
Airviz, the Robotics Institute spinoff that markets the Speck indoor air quality monitor, has announced that Speck is now compatible with the first-ever Bluetooth-enabled air filter for home furnaces and air conditioning systems. The Filtrete-brand Smart Air Filter, made by 3M, includes Bluetooth-enabled pressure sensor[...]
George Kantor Speaks at SXSW : AI Will Help Feed A Growing Planet
AI Will Help Feed A Growing Planet By the year 2040, there will be more people on the planet than food to feed them. Researchers want to change that: a sustainable solution to the emerging world food crisis is sprouting in an artificial intelligence (AI)[...]