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Rhinehart and Kitani receive Marr Prize Honorable Mention award
RI PhD student, Nick Rhinehart, and RI faculty, assistant research professor Kris Kitani, received the Marr Prize Honorable Mention award at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017, for their work on "First Person Activity Forecasting with Online Inverse Reinforcement Learning" Project link
Continuing Role For Robotics At Former Steel Mill
Hazelwood Green Will Be Home For Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute A view of downtown Pittsburgh is visible through the beams of the Hazelwood Green site. The Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute will be one of the anchor tenants of Hazelwood Green, the former Jones[...]
Boeing Invests in Drone Startup in Push for Automated Technology
By Dana Hull - Bloomberg Technology October 19, 2017 Near Earth spun out of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute Aerospace companies increasing support for new technologies Boeing Co. is investing in Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy, a self-guided drone startup, marking its first financial backing for[...]
Faculty Spotlight: Henny Admoni
Assistant Professor of Robotics Helps Robots Help You By Susie Cribbs Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Henny Admoni once thought she'd be a journalist. Instead, she's the latest addition to the Robotics Institute's faculty — poised to change the way we interact with robots forever.[...]
What CMU’s Snake Robot Team Learned While Searching for Mexican Earthquake Survivors
By Evan Ackerman IEEE SPECTRUM Posted 13 Oct 2017 | 16:50 GMT Photo: CMUDays after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico City, CMU sent its snake robots in to look for survivors. A few days after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico City last month,[...]
Mason Wins 2018 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award
CMU Professor Is Renowned for Work in Robotic Manipulation PITTSBURGH— Matthew T. Mason, a researcher renowned for his work in robotic manipulation, is the winner of the 2018 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award, one of the top awards in the field of robotics. The IEEE[...]