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Congrats to Changliu Liu, who received International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Robotics Outstanding Young Researcher Award! 🎉
The award recognizes the critical applications of her work in human-robot collaborations. Read more below! 👇
bit.ly/4f2bGNM
✈️ RI's Mitch Fogelson and Zac Manchester put their research to the test in zero gravity as part of a NASA Flight Opportunities campaign with Zero-G!
They worked to create foldable structures for space deployment 🚀 #CMUrobotics
Read and watch below:
www.ri.cmu.edu/in-flight-wi...
News alert! 🚨
Read about "ASAP: Aligning Simulation and Real-World Physics for Learning Agile Humanoid Whole-Body Skills" -- a novel collaborative project between the RI LeCAR lab and NVIDIA GEAR robotics research lab 👀
www.ri.cmu.edu/robots-with-...
@cmurobotics.bsky.social alum Jeremy Kubica is the engineering director for LINCC Frameworks, a joint initiative by Carnegie Mellon, the University of Washington and the LSST Discovery Alliance. Kubica's team is developing products to help scientists identify which massive stars are exploding.
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Congratulations to RI Ph.D. Zulekha Karachiwalla for her honorable mention at the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Collegiate Awards! 👏
Zulekha presented her work on robot-assisted wound care 🏥 #NCWITAiC
Find more on Zulekha’s research & the award program: www.aspirations.org/news/award-p...
Congrats to RI Ph.D. Benjamin Attal, RI assistant professor Matthew O'Toole & co-authors from the University of Toronto
& the Vector Institute for winning the CVPR 2025 Best Student Paper award! 🙌
Check out the winning work: "Neural Inverse Rendering from Propagating Light" 💡🏆
loom.ly/2dS1PJw
Robots may struggle in cluttered scenes due to challenging occlusions 🤖🚧
RaySt3R is a new foundation model that predicts the full 3D geometry from a single view! 👇👇
#CMUrobotics
Congrats to Ioannis Gkioulekas for receiving the 2025 Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist award in "Applied Sciences and Technologies: Artificial Intelligence" 🏆
The award recognizes scholars of Greek descent under 40 years of age for significant scientific contributions! ⬇️
bit.ly/4kH90qo
And then there were 2! #ICRA2025 Congrats to He, Yutong, Rishi, Tanishq, Guillaume, & Jiaoyang for winning the Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems🏅🤩
"Deploying Ten Thousand Robots: Scalable Imitation Learning for Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding"
arxiv.org/abs/2410.21415
#ICRA2025 alert! 🚨🥳
Congratulations to Yuheng Qiu, Yutian Chen, Zihao Zhang, Wenshan Wang, and Sebastian Scherer on winning the Best Conference Paper Award for:
"MAC-VO: Metrics-Aware Covariance for Leaning-Based Stereo Visual Odometry"! #CMUrobotics
arxiv.org/abs/2409.09479
Congrats to Jiaoyang Li on receiving the NSF CAREER award!
Her work, “Environment Optimization for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Coordination: Models, Methods, and Applications” reimagines how environments are designed for robots in the workforce!
Learn more👇
www.ri.cmu.edu/jiaoyang-li-...
Appleseed labs, a team from Kantor Lab, won the Excellence in Regenerative Agriculture award at the 2025 Farm Robotics Challenge! 🌽🏆👏
Their autonomous reforestation robot demonstrated outstanding commitment to environmental sustainability and overall ecosystem health.
Learn more: loom.ly/dw8v3h0
A team of 15 students from Carnegie Mellon University have won the 2025 MITRE Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) security competition– CMU’s fourth straight win! 🏆👏
Congrats to these amazing scholars! Learn about this year's team and eCTF competition: www.ri.cmu.edu/cmu-scores-f...
A team from Ji Zhang's lab at RI teamed up with @nrec.bsky.social to develop an off-road autonomous vehicle powered by their onboard autonomy software stack. See it in action on rugged trails! #CMUrobotics 💥🙌
Learn more about their autonomous exploration work: loom.ly/A_10H4E
From folding laundry to farming smarter, @cmurobotics.bsky.social is innovating ways to revolutionize daily tasks.
Research out of the RI has helped Pittsburgh earn a reputation as a central hub in the robotics world, with more than 30 robotics companies – and counting – that got started at CMU.
Congrats to RI Assistant Professor Andrea Bajcsy on receiving the NSF CAREER award! 👏
Her project: “Formalizing Open World Safety for Interactive Robots,” explores how robots make safe decisions beyond collision avoidance. Read about the work + her education outreach plans:
bit.ly/431K5qj
News alert!🚨
The TartanDriver team at the AirLab created a new self-supervised autonomy stack that enables vehicles to safely traverse complex terrains with speed & accuracy without human intervention #CMUrobotics
Read about this incredible work: www.ri.cmu.edu/taking-auton...
Just over a month left to submit to this year's Argoverse 2 challenges! Returning from previous years, are our motion forecasting and lidar scene flow challenges. And NEW for this year with a $10k prize pool is our Scenario Mining challenge!🧵👇
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Workshop on "Gaussian Representations for Robot Autonomy: Challenges and Opportunities" at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
We are organizing the #RSS2025 Workshop on "Gaussian Representations for Robot Autonomy: Challenges and Opportunities" at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
Call for papers: sites.google.com/view/gmm-wor.... Submission deadline: May 1, 2025.
CMU Vision-Language-Autonomy update: The team just released SORT3D, the first general spatial relation toolbox for autonomous vision-language navigation that is fully integrated into real-robot systems! 🤖👀
Simulation and real-robot data is provided!: github.com/nzantout/SOR...
CHI 2025 paper alert: "Creating Furniture-Scale Deployable Objects with a Computer-Controlled Sewing Machine" 🧵🖥️🪡
A team from @hcii.cmu.edu and RI introduce a novel method to make furniture-sized functional objects, including a side table, backpack, a chair and a lamp!
bit.ly/3G9Yo4u
Marc Donner operating the Trojan Cockroach during field testing (c.1983). Courtesy of the University Archives.
Photograph of Terregator in front of Porter Hall on Frew Street (c. 1984). Courtesy of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
It's #NationalRoboticsWeek AKA #RoboWeek! 🤖
@cmu.edu + @scsatcmu.bsky.social
(L) Marc Donner operating the Trojan Cockroach during field testing (c.1983). Courtesy of the University Archives.
(R) Terregator in front of Porter Hall on Frew St. (c.1984). Courtesy of @cmurobotics.bsky.social.
🛻🌳 Autonomous Off-Road Driving – No Labels, No Prior Map, & No GPS! Our self-supervised stack enables an ATV to navigate forests, snow, & nighttime. (1/5)
More details: theairlab.org/offroad/
Full video: youtu.be/7t4EQj8BIdY
#cmurobotics #robotics #autonomy
@cmurobotics.bsky.social
Thank you to Nikolay Atanasov for visiting RI from UC San Diego, La Jolla and giving a wonderful seminar!
Find: "Learning Environment Models for Mobile Robot Autonomy" on our YouTube channel ⏯️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKix...
To kick off Spring Carnival 🎪💐, MLD professor Katerina Fragkiadaki gave this year's Teruko Yata Memorial Lecture. Thank you to professor Fragkiadaki for such a fascinating talk!
Check out "Learning World Simulators from Data" ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Fo...
Ph.D. student Hung-Jui (Joe) Huang introduced NormalFlow, a real-time tactile-based 6DoF tracking algorithm! It enables reliable handling of low-texture objects while also benefiting other objects with more robust & accurate tracking. Read more below! #CMURobotics
www.ri.cmu.edu/innovative-a...
Congrats to Howie Choset for being elected as a 2024 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)!
Choset is being recognized for “distinguished contributions to the field of robotics, and for leadership in entrepreneurship and education”
www.ri.cmu.edu/howie-choset...
Check out Nima Fazeli’s RI seminar, “Sensing the Unseen: Dexterous Tool Manipulation Through Touch and Vision”
Thank you for visiting us and sharing your expertise, Nima!
youtu.be/YhbGGtKr9NI
Vivian Shen, Robotics Institute Ph.D. student, emerged as the champion of the CMU Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT)!
Shen was also awarded the Jane Street Graduate fellowship that will support her work for a full year!
Read more on our news site: bit.ly/4kQiUal
Hear from Alfred Rizzi, Chief Technology Officer at the Robotics and AI institute (RAI). His fascinating seminar, titled “Developing Physically Capable and Intelligent Robots” can be found on our YouTube Channel! ⬇️
Thanks for visiting us, Al!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkCh...
