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Snake robots slither into our hearts, literally
Oliver Mitchell
27 Jun 2017
The biblical narrative of the Garden of Eden describes how the snake became the most cursed of all beasts: “you shall walk on your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.” The rep...
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TechBridgeWorld, with M. Bernardine Dias
Audrow Nash
18 Sep 2015
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In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews M. Bernardine Dias, Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about TechBridgeWorld. TechBridgeW...
Unpowered exoskeleton improves efficiency of human walking
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
08 Apr 2015
Humans have evolved to be incredibly efficient at walking. In fact, simulations of human locomotion show that walking on level ground and at a steady speed should theoretically require no power input ...
Developing trust in autonomous robots: Seminar with Michael Wagner
Robots for Roboticists
06 Mar 2015
I recently had the opportunity to hear a talk from a colleague that I have worked with many times over the years. The talk was all about how to build safe and robust systems - a critical topic that ...
Uber Chases Google in self-driving cars with Carnegie Mellon deal | WSJ
Hallie Siegel
03 Feb 2015
What might have been a budding partnership suddenly appeared to boil over into a pitched rivalry on Monday. Besides Uber’s disclosure that it will work on its own self-driving car technology, a Bloo...
No, Google and Uber aren’t going to war over self-driving cars | The Verge
Hallie Siegel
03 Feb 2015
This week, Uber has announced a self-driving research initiative in partnership with Carnegie Mellon, while Google is rumored to be investigating ride-sharing using its own self-driving cars. At a gla...
Google is developing its own Uber competitor | Bloomberg Business
Hallie Siegel
03 Feb 2015
Google Ventures, the search giant's venture capital arm, invested $258 million in Uber in August 2013. It was Google Ventures' largest investment deal ever, and the company put more money into Uber...
Uber to collaborate with CMU on robocars
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
03 Feb 2015
Uber announced a strategic partnership with CMU yesterday, including a robocar lab in Pittsburg, and rumours reported in TechCrunch suggest Uber could be hiring up to 50 CMU folks to staff it....
The CORAL group: Interview with Joydeep Biswas and Brian Coltin
Our newest video interview features PhD student Joydeep Biswas, who works with Dr. Manuela Veloso’s CORAL research group, and scientist Brian Coltin, who is at NASA's Ames Intelligent Research g...
Robotics Summer of Learning at CMU
Cara Friez-LeWinter
06 Jun 2013
This summer, students have the opportunity to learn how to program robots, design games, animate stories, and earn a chance to win over $10,000 in prizes and scholarships! The Robotics Summer of Learn...
Snake robot teams up with search-and-rescue dog in US | BBC News
Hallie Siegel
29 Apr 2013
The search-and-rescue test involved sending the dogs through a concrete pipe into the "collapsed building" at an emergency-response training centre. They had been trained to bark when they found a po...
Robotic kit for kids
Wolfgang Heller
04 Jan 2013
The Hummingbird robotics kit is a spin-off product of Carnegie Mellon's CREATE lab. Hummingbird is designed to enable engineering and robotics activities for ages 10 and up that involve the making of ...
Robotic future of retail
Wolfgang Heller
01 Nov 2012
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University see the future of retail — with AndyVision, technology that helps to improve the shopping experience for both customers and retail staff.
AndyVision is a...
CMU’s Robot Hall of Fame inducts four
John Payne
26 Oct 2012
"The Robot Hall of Fame inducted four robots chosen for the first time by a popular vote — Aldebaran Robotics' NAO humanoid, iRobot's PackBot bomb disposal robot, Boston Dynamics' four-legg...
Ball rolling robots
Wolfgang Heller
25 Oct 2012
San Francisco based Bossa Nova Robotics develops personal robots for the home based on the ballbot technology under license from CMU. Founded by robotics entrepreneur Sarjoun Skaff as a spin-off out o...
Research and academics: CMU’s Robot Hall of Fame | Robotics Trends
Andra Keay
13 Sep 2012
Heather and her robot bring theater to the proceedings, highlighting the many innovative ways that robots can communicate like and with people.
See on www.roboticstrends.com...
Two different approaches to spawn robotics; one common thread
Frank Tobe
21 Aug 2012
Sometimes a company is founded because it stumbles upon a niche that it can fill better than any other company. Such a company is RE2 (Robotics Engineering Excellence). Founded by Jorgen Pedersen as a...
