The NavCog project of the Cognitive Assistance Lab) received the best technical paper award at the 14th International Web for All Conference in Perth, Australia with the paper "Achieving Practical and Accurate Indoor Navigation for People with Visual Impairments". Congratulations to the authors, Dragan Ahmetovic,[...]

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 84 new members and 22 foreign members, announced NAE President C.D. (Dan) Mote Jr. today. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,281 and the number of foreign members to 249. Election to the National Academy of[...]

From IFT.org: Artur Dubrawski, director of the Auton Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, said that the lab researches new approaches to statistical data mining, specifically the underlying computer science, mathematics, statistics, and artificial intelligence of detection and exploitation of patterns in data. Government agencies routinely collect[...]

Cole Gleason, a Ph.D. student advised by Dr. Kris Kitani (RI) and Jeff Bigham (HCII), received a NSF GFRP fellowship. Cole's research focuses on developing navigation technology for people with visual impairments by combining computer vision and crowdsourcing. Full story here

Personal Object Recognizers for Blind People Receive Honorable Mention at CHI 2017[/caption] Robotics Institute faculty Kris Kitani and Chieko Asakawa in collaboration with Human-Computer Interaction Institute postdoctoral fellow Hernisa Kacorri and faculty Jeffrey Bigham received a Best Paper Honorable Mention for their project helping blind[...]

NASA Funding Could Establish New Paradigm For Extraterrestial Robots NASA has selected lunar logistics company Astrobotic Technology, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, to develop a new class of small, lightweight rovers, called CubeRovers, capable of small-scale science and exploration on extraterrestrial surfaces. The CubeRover,[...]