CMU Robotics Institute
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Pioneering the future of robotics since 1979. We’re transforming industries and everyday life through cutting-edge innovation & world-class education. 🌐 https://linktr.ee/cmuroboticsinstitute
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A new tool that better tracks pollution worldwide has CMU research at its core‼️

Climate TRACE, co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, released an air pollution monitoring tool that relies on visualizations and models developed by CMU's CREATE Lab

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Tracking Pollution Globally
Climate TRACE, a first-of-its-kind tool that better tracks pollution worldwide, has research from the Robotics Institute's CREATE Lab at its core.
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Dexterous robots are moving from CMU labs to real-world industries with support from the National Science Foundation!

For Altus Dexterity, this means moving beyond prototypes to pilot programs + partnerships where dexterous robots can shine. ☀️🤖

Read more about it below:

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1/6 Recent discussions (e.g. Rich Sutton on @dwarkesh.bsky.social’s podcast) have highlighted why animals are a better target for intelligence — and why scaling alone isn’t enough.
In my recent @cmurobotics.bsky.social seminar talk, “Using Embodied Agents to Reverse-Engineer Natural Intelligence”,
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🚀CMU VLA Update 2: The team has released another video showing their system "finding the blue trashcan in the classroom" 👀🗑️

Stay tuned for further updates!

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CMU Vision-Language-Autonomy Challenge: "Find the Blue Trash Can in the Classroom"
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🚨CMU Vision-Language-Autonomy update 1: The team released a video to "find the refrigerator in the lounge"–– they are looking for new PhD/Master's to work on long-horizon navigation & instruction!

Contact Ji Zhang for more info: bit.ly/3Kgvm5a

Watch the vid in normal speed on our YouTube channel!
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Koyal, founded by SCS alumni Mehul and Gauri Agarwal, produces cinematic videos from ANY audio clip! 🎵🗣️🔊

The sibling founders are offering their platform to the public for the first time –– giving creators a quick and easy way to bring audio content to life.

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CMU Alumni Launch Koyal for Safe AI Video Creation - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
A new startup launched by Carnegie Mellon University alumni can transform a song, podcast, recording or audio clip from a movie into a fully produced video complete with personalized scenery, costumes...
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Leveraging robotics in agriculture can help build a resilient and sustainable future.

In the latest episode of Where What If Becomes What's Next, Professor George Kantor of @cmurobotics.bsky.social shares his insights from two decades of pioneering work in agricultural robotics.
S2 Episode 11: Farm to Future: How Robotics and AI are Revolutionizing Agriculture
What if robots could pick apples without bruising them, detect diseases in tomatoes before farmers can see them, or even help prevent catastrophic wildfires?
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What happens in the Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction Lab? 🤖🤝👤

Led by Zackory Erickson, the lab develops new technology to enable robots to physically interact with people who are not able to care for themselves. Check out the video below:

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CMU's Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction Lab
CMU researchers are developing new technology to enable robots to physically interact with people who are not able to care for themselves.These breakthroughs...
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Eight Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. students have received the SoftBank Group–Arm Fellowship to support research at the intersection of AI and human collaboration. 👏

The program builds on CMU’s relationship with Keio University in Japan, part of a $110 million effort to advance AI research and innovation.
Eight Carnegie Mellon Students Named SoftBank Group–Arm Fellows
Eight Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. students have received the SoftBank Group–Arm Fellowship to support research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human collaboration.
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Congratulations to Senior Systems Scientist Matt Travers and his students for winning "Best Academic/Research Institute Technology Demonstration" at the 2025 Ground Vehicles Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium (GVSETS)!🔥

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Robots may one day work in homes, helping with chores like unloading the dishwasher. But before they can put the forks where they belong, they need to learn how to open a drawer.

Enter ArticuBot: a policy that enables a robotics system to open diverse unseen articulated objects!

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Opening New Doors for Household Robotics - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Robots may one day work alongside us in our homes, helping with chores like unloading the dishwasher. But before they can put the forks where they belong, robots need to learn how to open the drawer.
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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! 👇

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@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...
NCWIT Selects 2025 AiC Collegiate Award Recipients
Technology too often has a culture of invisibility, otherness, self-doubt, and closed doors. Aspirations in Computing seeks to turn barriers into possibilities through exclusive awards, scholarships, ...
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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" 💡🏆

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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! 👇👇

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Imagine if robots could fill in the blanks in cluttered scenes.

✨ Enter RaySt3R: a single masked RGB-D image in, complete 3D out.
It infers depth, object masks, and confidence for novel views, and merges the predictions into a single point cloud. rayst3r.github.io
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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! ⬇️

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Ioannis Gkioulekas Recognized as Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Ioannis Gkioulekas, associate professor at the Robotics Institute in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has received the 2025 Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist award in t...
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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
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#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
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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👇

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Jiaoyang Li Earns NSF CAREER Award - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Jiaoyang Li, assistant professor at the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has earned the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development...
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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