Artur Dubrawski is leading a project to develop an AI framework that transforms how critical minerals are discovered. This U.S. Department of Energy investment will make exploration faster and more precise to strengthen domestic supply chains. www.cmu.edu/news/stories...

Harnessing AI to Find Critical Minerals

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University will develop a new artificial intelligence framework to better identify critical minerals in the ground, increasing America’s access to these valuable mater...

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The hope that CMU’s snake robots could help started with Beatriz Gonzalez, a native Venezuelan living in Atlanta who was scouring the internet for anyone who could assist search and rescue efforts in her home country.

Snake Robots Support Earthquake Search and Rescue in Venezuela

Carnegie Mellon University researchers worked alongside international search and rescue teams in Venezuela to explore collapsed buildings with snake robots following two massive earthquakes that devastated cities.

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MSCV student Siddharth Vohra recently showed that LLMs intermittently invent false information when responding to medical questions 🏥⁉️ The findings reinforce a critical concern he sees in AI industry: users often assume models understand more than they actually do www.ri.cmu.edu/healthcare-b...

Healthcare Blind Spots: AI Models Prone To Fabricating Diagnoses - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

A Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science student recently showed that large language models (LLMs) intermittently invent false information when responding to medical questions.

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RIO, a new framework from CMU, provides a unified interface for robot control, data collection, teleoperation and AI deployment! It gives researchers a lightweight, modular foundation for deploying robots quickly on any platform. www.ri.cmu.edu/robot-io/

The Missing Infrastructure for AI-Powered Robots - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Researchers in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science have developed an open-source software framework designed to eliminate much of that setup work, making it easier to deploy AI s...

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Residents from a Baptist Senior Family living community visited Zackory Erickson’s Robotic Caregiving & Human Interaction Lab! RCHI works closely with the residents to test their assistive robots. It was a unique opportunity for them to see live demos & meet the students! 😄

RI researchers are developing a new way for robots to learn everyday tasks by watching videos of people interacting with objects. Their system, VideoManip, converts these videos into training data that can be used to teach robots dexterous manipulation skills! www.ri.cmu.edu/cmu-research...

CMU Researchers Train Robots With Internet Videos - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are developing a new way for robots to learn everyday tasks like grasping a coffee mug or opening a drawer by watching videos of ...

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The CMU Fire Blighters designed an autonomous navigation robot that moves through orchard rows, detects fire blight symptoms + maps infected trees in real time. 🍎🗺️ They earned the Amiga Innovation Award at the 2026 Farm Robotics Challenge! #TartanProud www.ri.cmu.edu/carnegie-mel...

Carnegie Mellon Team Helps Farmers Fight Crop Disease With Robots - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Fire blight can devastate orchards, killing branches and entire trees while causing major economic losses for growers. To help farmers detect the disease earlier and reduce the spread of infection, a ...

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Deepak Pathak, Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Robotics, has received a 2026 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young Researcher Award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)! 👏🏆🤖 www.ri.cmu.edu/pathak-recei...

Pathak Receives 2026 PAMI Young Researcher Award - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Deepak Pathak, the Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Robotics in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI), has received a 2026 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young Researc...

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Apply for the Foundations of Robotic Interactions online graduate certificate program! Next Start Date: August 2026 ⚡ Priority Deadline – June 10, 2026 ✅ Final Deadline – July 29, 2026 All info available here! www.cmu.edu/online/found...

Excited to share that IA-TIGRIS, a major part of my PhD work, has been published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics! Hundreds of flights and extensive validation toward practical online informative path planning for real robots. ia-tigris.github.io

IA-TIGRIS: An Incremental and Adaptive Sampling-based Planner for Online Informative Path Planning

We present IA-TIGRIS, an incremental and adaptive sampling-based informative path planner that can be run efficiently with onboard computation.

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As the inaugural Bachelor of Science in Robotics graduate, Beverly (Bev) Da Costa not only moved through a brand-new curriculum but also helped define it #TartanProud #CMUgrad 🎓 🎉 Hear from Bev in a Q+A where she reflects on her BSR experience: https://www.ri.cmu.edu/work-hard-and-dream-harder/

Work Hard and Dream Harder - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

A mass email from the dean to the entire Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science felt especially personal to Beverly (Bev) Da Costa.  The email, sent by Martial Hebert back in 2023, anno...

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World2Rules learns patterns of risky aircraft behavior from real airport operations & incident data, then explains warnings in terms humans can easily understand ✈️ 🧑‍✈️ It's designed to work alongside existing prediction systems to enhance safety! https://www.ri.cmu.edu/?p=151221&preview=true

CMU Researchers Develop AI System to Help Prevent Airport Collisions - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

The Breakdown:  World2Rules learns patterns of risky aircraft behavior from real airport operations and incident data. It explains its warnings in simple terms that are easy for humans to understand. ...

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Register for the next CMU Vision-Language-Navigation challenge, which will conclude with a workshop at #IROS2026! Teams will develop systems that allow robots to interpret natural-language instructions and navigate unfamiliar environments. Learn more ⬇️ www.ri.cmu.edu/next-phase-o...

Robotics Institute Launches Next Phase of Vision-Language-Navigation Challenge - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

A research group at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) will host the latest phase of the Vision-Language-Navigation (VLN) Challenge, bringing researchers together to enable robots to...

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Leslie Kaelbling, Panasonic Professor of Computer Science & Engineering @MIT, gave the last seminar of the semester! You can find her talk, "The Role of Rationality in Modern Robotics", on our YT channel along with a playlist of all other seminars ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4wbW9TU

Robotics Institute Seminar Series - YouTube

Robotics Seminar series hosted by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.

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CMU researchers created LiveSplats to allow fans to follow sports events from any angle, despite being miles from the arena. 🏀 ⚽ LiveSplats combines virtual reality technology and advanced AI-powered rendering to make this possible. Learn more! 👇 www.ri.cmu.edu/moving-beyon...

Moving Beyond the Broadcast - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Imagine standing courtside during a championship basketball game, hearing the squeak of sneakers echo across the hardwood as players weave past each other. As the ball arcs toward the hoop, you change...

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Hear from Raj Reddy, Moza Bint Nasser University Professor, who recently gave a keynote lecture for National Robotics Week. 🤖 👀 You can find his talk, "The Future of AI", on the RI YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydnOSMbyyQo

Raj Reddy : The Future of AI : Doomers vs. Abundance

YouTube video by CMU Robotics Institute

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Congrats to the RI faculty who earned a top seed grant in the Laude Institute's Moonshot Competition! 👏 The team’s project, ARISTOS, will develop an AI-powered virtual craft master capable of guiding users through complex physical tasks in real time. https://bit.ly/4th2sn3

CMU and Cornell University developed a new assistive feeding algorithm, Wearable Approach for Feeding With Learned Bite Timing (WAFFLE), that can be integrated with robotic feeding devices to predict when someone is ready for their next bite! www.ri.cmu.edu/predicting-t...

Predicting the Next Bite - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Researchers in the School of Computer Science and Cornell University developed a new assistive feeding algorithm, Wearable Approach for Feeding With Learned Bite Timing (WAFFLE), that can be integrate...

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Many thanks to Boris Sofman, RI alumnus and Co-founder and CEO
of Bedrock Robotics for coming to campus and giving this year's Teruko Yata memorial lecture! You can watch "Journeys from Research to Commercialization" on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA7U...

Yata Memorial Lecture : Boris Sofman : Journeys from Research to Commercialization

YouTube video by CMU Robotics Institute

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To make PDFs truly accessible, most of the tagging work must be done by hand. What if that wasn't the case? Enter iTagPDF, a system that combines visual analysis + information from source docs to rethink how accessibility metadata is generated for LaTeX-based PDFs: www.ri.cmu.edu/rethinking-p...

A team led by RI's Aaron Steinfeld earned the inaugural Test of Time Award at the 2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction! 👏 They were recognized for their paper, “Common Metrics for Human Robot Interaction", originally published in 2006. www.ri.cmu.edu/steinfeld-re...

Steinfeld Receives 2026 Test of Time Award - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

A team led by Carnegie Mellon University’s Aaron Steinfeld has earned the inaugural Test of Time Award at the 2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

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“How quickly can you discover all the failure cases and fix them?” Schneider asked. “That governs how quickly you can scale up." @cmurobotics.bsky.social faculty member Jeff Schneider talks to @yahoonews.com about what's next for HAVs in Pennsylvania.

What’s legal for driverless vehicles in Pennsylvania?

PennDOT works with other states to collaborate on highly automated vehicles and their evolving regulations as the technology becomes more common.

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#AI startup founders: this incredible opportunity from the CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship could be your first-round pick moment! April 1 is your last chance to apply to pitch in front of global investors, industry leaders, and judges, during NFL Draft Week! www.cmu.edu/swartz-cente...

Todd Jochem (SCS 1993, 1996) gave a fascinating rundown of on the evolution of autonomous vehicles, the state of self-driving technology, and CMU's lasting impact! 🚗🧠 From Navlab to the streets of Pittsburgh, where will autonomous vehicles go next? www.ri.cmu.edu/where-autono...

Where Autonomous Vehicles Will Go Next - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Todd Jochem (SCS 1993, 1996) has been in the driver’s seat of autonomous vehicles for decades. Long before “self-driving car” became a household phrase, he was helping to demonstrate the technology co...

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From the SIGGRAPH blog, check out “Beyond the Mirror: Breaking Infinity” What if an infinity mirror didn’t behave like an infinity mirror? RI’s Jim McCann reimagined this classic optical illusion in his SIGGRAPH 2025 Poster 🪞👀 blog.siggraph.org/2026/03/beyo...

Beyond the Mirror: Breaking Infinity - ACM SIGGRAPH Blog

Discover James McCann’s research reimagining classic infinity mirrors. Using LED arrays, parallax barriers, and 3D-printed textures, McCann creates a “speed tunnel” effect that challenges perception a...

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Congrats to Associate Professor Deepak Pathak for receiving a 2026 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research! Pathak's project addresses how to make AI systems scale beyond controlled settings in the real world to solve complex tasks. www.ri.cmu.edu/pathak-recei...

Pathak Receives 2026 Young Investigator Award - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Deepak Pathak, the Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Robotics in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI), has received a 2026 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ON...

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Super Odometry helps robots to stay in motion, make decisions and complete missions in scenarios that would normally stop them in their tracks 🧠✅ This incredible work was a top feature article in the December 2025 edition of Science Robotics! Read more: www.ri.cmu.edu/keeping-robo...

Keeping Robots Moving in Extreme Environments - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

When a drone enters a burning building to assist with search and rescue, visibility can vanish in seconds. Camera feeds dissolve into gray. Laser scanners scatter unpredictably off airborne ash. In th...

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Congrats to Three Minute Thesis #3MT preliminary round 4 co-winner, Rishi Veerapaneni of @cmurobotics.bsky.social at @scsatcmu.bsky.social! 📣 His presentation is titled, "How to train your ~~dragon~~ robot team!" ⏰ Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship! 🗓️ 3/25, 6-8pm 💻 cmu.is/2026-3MT-Champ

CMU researchers are working to make farming more predictable. The @cmurobotics.bsky.social KantorLab uses precise #robotics to autonomously harvest peppers. 🫑 At the CMU Robotics Innovation Center, researchers will be able to plant specific crops for robots to interact with and navigate.

Robotic Pepper Harvesting : KantorLab

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Innovation Center has secured FieldAI as its inaugural corporate tenant ahead of the facility’s opening on Friday. The move will embed an industry leader in robotics and artificial intelligence into the university’s new research space at Hazelwood Green.

CMU’s Robotics Innovation Center Secures FieldAI as Inaugural Corporate Tenant

Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Innovation Center has secured its first corporate tenant, bringing the high-growth robotics unicorn FieldAI to the university’s new research facility at Hazelwood...

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