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Distinguished Carnegie Mellon University Professor Illah R. Nourbakhsh Joins ROBO Global Advisory Board
DALLAS--(Business Wire)--ROBO Global, creator of the first benchmark index tracking the global robotics and automation market, has increased the depth and expertise of its advisory board with the addition of Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Professor of Robotics at The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Nourbakhsh, who[...]
Hands Off – Your autonomous car questions answered
By Howard Leff Source Weekly January 24 2018 Bend's Mel Siegel knows more about self-driving cars than perhaps anyone else in town. He's a Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh—and an authority on the subject. In honor of the transportation issue,[...]
What Drives Red Whittaker?
by Christine O’Toole, Pittsburgh Quarterly Higher Education 2018 Winter In January, Carnegie Mellon University professor Red Whittaker set a goal that had nothing to do with robotics: to best a field of competitors in an indoor rowing race. The ergometer competition, a 2,000-meter battle[...]
Argo AI collaborates with CMU, Georgia Tech researchers on self-driving cars
Aaron Aupperlee Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, 11:06 a.m. Argo AI, a Pittsburgh-based startup developing self-driving technology for Ford, will team up with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Tech to work on computer vision and machine learning technology. Deva Ramanan and Simon Lucey from[...]
Technology Has Come A Long Way, But What Does The Future Hold?
November 8, 2017 7:18 PM By David Highfield [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZHnrC_hojU[/embedyt] PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Cell phones and computers have dramatically changed our lives. Today’s reality would have seemed like science fiction when many of us were growing up, so what’s next? You may get a[...]
Boeing stakes spinoff from CMU’s Robotics Institute
By Patty Tascarella – Senior Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times Boeing Co.’s new venture capital arm has invested in Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy, plus partnering to explore technologies for defense and commercial applications. Near Earth, a spinoff from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, develops software and[...]