Minh Vo and Aayush Bansal were among the winners of 2017 Qualcomm fellowships. Congratulations! The QInF program is focused on recognizing, rewarding, and mentoring innovative PhD students across a broad range of technical research areas, based on Qualcomm’s core values of innovation, execution and teamwork.[...]

Another RI Spinoff, Roadbotics, Earns Runner-up Prize. The Surtrac intelligent traffic signaling system developed by the Robotics Institute and spun off as Rapid Flow Technologies is the winner of the Smart Cities Global Innovation Award for Mobility organized by France’s Le Monde newspaper. The leader[...]

Zulhasnan Rafique, the Malaysian ambassador to the United States, gets a close look at the CHIMP robot at the National Robotics Engineering Center during a May 23 visit arranged by the U.S. State Department. U.S. State Department Brings Diplomats to Pittsburgh More than[...]

A Robotics Institute student is one of two School of Computer Science students named recipients of 2017 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowships. The company sponsors the annual program to recognize and support excellence in computing research using graphics processing units. Ph.D. student Xiaolong Wang was among the[...]

Now On Display at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry Daisy, a six-legged robot built by a Robotics Institute spinoff company, is one of several new robots featured in “Robot Revolution,” an exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry that runs through Feb. 4,[...]

The smartphone app for navigating the blind, NavCog, developed jointly by CMU and IBM was field tested in Mitsui Fudosan’s COREDO Muromachi shopping park in Tokyo, Japan. NavCog was developed by the Robotic Institute's Cognitive Assistance Lab (CAL) led by Chieko Asakawa (Distinguished Service Professor)[...]