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Say it five times fast: Roboburgh, robot belt, robotics row. But will these Burgh buzzwords stick?
“Roboburgh,” has been used by the Post-Gazette 42 times. Courtney Linder Pittsburgh Post-Gazette clinder@post-gazette.com SEP 26, 2017 So the story goes, Mayor Bill Peduto began using #Roboburgh whenever he cited technology articles on Twitter. It seemed trendy and possibly even hip or, to some,[...]
Hodgins Elected As President of SIGGRAPH
Jessica Hodgins, professor of computer science and robotics, has been elected as president of SIGGRAPH, the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. SIGGRAPH convenes the premier annual conference on computer graphics, which is attended by tens of[...]
Smart Traffic Signals Will Help Blind Cross Streets
System Allows Extra Time For Pedestrians With Disabilities Photos from Downtown Pittsburgh and East Liberty intersections featuring Smart Cities traffic technology for the upcoming Marketing effort. PITTSBURGH— Smart traffic signals that are designed to improve the flow of traffic also could help pedestrians[...]
CMU smart traffic signals may accommodate slower pedestrians
Stacey Federoff Digital Producer Pittsburgh Business Times Sep 19, 2017, 2:25pm EDT Smart traffic signals could communicate with pedestrians’ smartphones to change lights in real time, thanks to a two-year project underway at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. A $2 million grant from the Federal[...]
Lighter weights, lower costs in additive manufacturing
Critical instant analysis, a new process for improved structural optimization in additive manufacturing, unveils the possibility of designing products that are lighter in weight and cheaper to produce. Credit: Burak Kara and Erva Ulu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University September 18,[...]
RoboTutor Team Led By Carnegie Mellon’s Mostow Wins $1 Million as Global Learning XPRIZE Finalist
Learning tool will be field-tested in Africa for 15 months By Shilo Rea & Byron Spice RoboTutor LLC, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff created by Professor Jack Mostow, was named one of five Global Learning XPRIZE finalists for its RoboTutor software, educational technology that teaches[...]