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NREC Selected For Research Projects Totaling More Than $11 Million
Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) has been selected as a prime contractor or subcontractor on four major new federal research projects totaling more than $11 million over the next three years. The projects range from research on a wheel that can transform into a track to automated stress testing for critical software.
NREC Highlights How It Applies Cutting-Edge Tech to Companies’ Needs
Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center is inviting industry engineering, operations and research leaders to tour its Lawrenceville facility on April 9 and learn more about how its cutting-edge technology can address their companies’ needs.
Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Aircraft Demonstrate New Collaborative Capabilities for Keeping Warfighters Safe
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Sikorsky, A Lockheed Martin Company, using a UH-60MU Black Hawk helicopter enabled with Sikorsky's MATRIX™ Technology and CMU's Land Tamer® autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), recently participated in a joint autonomy demonstration that proved the capability of new, ground-air cooperative[...]
CMU’s CHIMP Featured on NOVA’s “Rise of the Robots”
Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Rescue Team and its CHIMP robot are featured in "Rise of the Robots," the Feb. 24 episode of PBS's NOVA. The episode of the long-running science series looks at the current state of robots with human-like capabilities and considers the enormous challenges[...]
Abhinav Gupta Wins Sloan Research Fellowship
Abhinav Gupta, an assistant professor of robotics who specializes in computer vision and large-scale visual learning, is among 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers chosen as recipients of the 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships. A second Carnegie Mellon faculty member, Wesley Pegden, assistant professor of mathematical[...]
CMU’s CHIMP Featured on NOVA’s “Rise of the Robots”
Carnegie Mellon’s Tartan Rescue Team and its CHIMP robot are featured in “Rise of the Robots,” the Feb. 24 episode of PBS’s NOVA.The episode of the long-running science series looks at the current state of robots with human-like capabilities and considers the enormous challenges that remain before humanoid robots and semi-humanoids such as CHIMP are ready to become part of our everyday lives.