Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 37.79
May 20, 2021
The Richard King Mellon Foundation today announced that it has approved a $150 million grant to Carnegie Mellon University, the largest single grant in the foundation's 74-year history. The longtime partners said the investment will support the university's science and technology leadership, contribute to Pittsburgh's ongoing economic renaissance, and provide a more vibrant future for the Hazelwood neighborhood. The first $75 million of the grant is the lead gift for a new cutting-edge science building on the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The second $75 million will seed a new robotics innovation center and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 37.67
February 07, 2022
…and robot supplier programs to community colleges and traditional universities. New programs exemplify educational excellence The ARM Institute provided the following descriptions of each of the newly endorsed programs, which it said exceeded its evaluation criteria. University of Maryland – Maryland Robotics Center: The Master of Engineering in Robotics program and the Graduate Certificate in Engineering program ensure continued research and development of robotic applications and contributes to the overall robotics ecosystem. The instructors allow for innovation in the program curriculum and attract industry and diverse students, said ARM. In addition, the curriculum examples show the level of knowledge, skill,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 37.07
March 19, 2016
…self-driving technology, using engineers it poached from Google and Carnegie Mellon University. The company recently announced plans to expand its Pittsburgh facility to include a test track for driverless cars. “Uber isn’t valued at more than $50 billion because it’s a ‘taxi app,’ but because investors see Uber as a logistics company.” - Adrian Gonzalez, Adelante SCM Still, purchasing a fleet of cars, especially one of such size, has not been part of Uber’s playbook so far. The company’s business model relies heavily on drivers using their own personal vehicles, or ones leased from for-hire vehicle companies. If Uber buys…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 35.19
July 05, 2021
…the commercial drone community as a whole.” Roboticists from Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University founded American Robotics in 2016. The privately owned company said it focuses on designing, developing, and marketing industrial drones for rugged, real-world environments. In May, wireless broadband firm Ondas Holdings Inc. acquired the MassRobotics member, and they recently completed a $51.5 million equity raise that was heavily oversubscribed. Drones providers need FAA, industry acceptance The commercial drone industry is growing quickly and providing significant benefits to the U.S. public, but enabling expanded BVLOS operations is critical for the industry to truly take off, said American…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.47
February 25, 2023
New research out of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science seeks to teach robots to grasp the ungraspable by turning the challenge on its side. Wenxuan Zhou, a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute working with Assistant Professor David Held, used artificial intelligence to teach a robot to pick up an item by pushing it against something and grasping it on its side. Her work enables a simple robot gripper to pick up hard-to-grasp objects and to manipulate them in ways that only more complex — and expensive — robotic hands could “We wanted to find a way to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.28
June 13, 2023
…17-year tenure as a scientist and senior engineer at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute and holding the position of CEO at Kaarta. He has also worked in technology leadership roles at PRI Automation, Color Kinetics (acquired by Philips), and MC10. The Robotics Factory, under the leadership of Innovation Works and with four-year support from the EDA, will operate a series of interrelated programs. These are designed to stimulate the development and growth of startups in the robotics sector, focusing on creating solutions for industry-identified challenges, accelerating startups, and scaling up manufacturing. “I am honored to join the exceptional team at…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 32.41
June 03, 2022
…out of the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2001. The company makes a line of robotic arms as part of its RE2 Sapien line, which are used in both structured and unstructured environments. Its flagship product is the Sapien 6M. It also makes robots that go underwater as part of its RE2 Sapien Sea Class line. Pedersen said the company’s bread and butter is developing technologies for outdoor use. “What sets us apart from ABB, KUKA, and FANUC is we design systems from the ground up for mobile outdoor applications,” Pedersen said. To date,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 32.11
December 01, 2015
…and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University. An industry advocate, author, and international ambassador for robotics, Engelberger founded Unimation, Inc., in 1956, the world’s first industrial robotics manufacturer. Working closely with inventor George Devol, he developed the first industrial robot in the U.S., called “Unimate”, which was installed for industrial use in a General Motors plant in 1961. Since then, approximately three million industrial robots have been installed in manufacturing facilities around the world. “Joe made some of the most important contributions to technological advancement in the history of the world,” said Jeff Burnstein, president of the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 31.89
May 30, 2017
…after Uber poached dozens of researchers and engineers from Carnegie Mellon University. It was reportedly Levandowski’s decision to rapidly expand those efforts into San Francisco at the end of 2016. In other news, Uber quietly dropped the name for its driverless truck unit, “Otto.” The change was made last month in the wake of a trademark infringement dispute with a similarly named Canadian company that markets its own robotic vehicle technology. Uber consolidated Otto’s activities under its Advanced Technologies Group, or Uber ATG, in April and “retired the Otto name,” it said without elaborating. The change came shortly after the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 31.02
March 28, 2024
…this transformation.” Gather AI was founded in 2017 by co-founders Arora, Daniel Maturana and Geetesh Dubey, after launching from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.59
May 07, 2021
…said Elliot Hawkes, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His own robots have garnered interest for their bioinspired and novel locomotion and for the new possibilities they present. To help guarantee the longevity of soft robotics research, Hawkes and colleagues Carmel Majidi from Carnegie Mellon University and Michael T. Tolley of UC San Diego have published their viewpint in the journal Science Robotics. Explosion of interest in soft robotics “We were looking at publication data for soft robotics and noticed a phase of explosive growth over the last decade,” Hawkes said. “We became curious about…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.42
August 12, 2024
…scale Principal investigator: RTX Technology Research Center Project Team: Carnegie Mellon University, Wason Technology LLC., Collins Aerospace Description: Lightweight, carbon-fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites (TPCs) are recognized as a key material capable of meeting the future aerospace market high-rate demands, while also providing sustainability benefits. One challenging, but key enabler of high-rate TPC manufacturing is welding. In a prior ARM Institute-funded project called Rapid Welding of Thermoplastic Composite Structures, robotic continuous ultrasonic welding was shown to increase the speed of induction. This project will build on the outputs from the prior project in order to scale it to production use. Fixtureless…
