NASA has awarded $100,000 to the Robotics Institute and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory through its Strategic University Research Project program to develop new navigation strategies that would enable future planetary rovers to traverse more complex terrains at higher speeds than now possible. Alonzo Kelly, professor[...]

October 9, 2017 by Bill Koenig - Senior Editor, ADVANCEDMANUFACTURING.ORG A Caterpillar autonomous vehicle in operation at a mine. (Caterpillar photo)   Autonomous technology well established in mining, agriculture The auto industry’s biggest current focus is self-driving cars. Established automakers as well as technology companies such as Apple Inc.[...]

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DARPA Urban Challenge Marked Dawn of Self-Driving Vehicles Members and friends of the Tartan Racing Team will gather Oct. 12-14 at Carnegie Mellon University to celebrate UC10, the 10th anniversary of the team's victory in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Urban Challenge self-driving car race. The event, including[...]

By Evan Ackerman IEEE SPECTRUM Posted 27 Sep 2017 CMU’s new gait-generating method means you can teach a dodecapod robot to transition into a nonapod robot that can carry stuff with two arms while using a third to point a camera. Robots that can be[...]

Multi-jointed rescue robot gets first experience In live disaster  Carnegie Mellon University researchers last week deployed a snake-like robot to search for trapped survivors in a Mexico City  apartment building that collapsed in the7.1-magnitude earthquake that shook the city Sept. 19. The multi-jointed snakebot provided[...]