Carnegie Mellon University has named Damion Shelton (SCS 2004, 2007) as associate vice president and the next executive director of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, appointing an experienced entrepreneur, technology executive and Carnegie Mellon alumnus to lead the university's next phase of growth in entrepreneurship, enterprise creation and research commercialization. His first day will…
Zackory Erickson, an assistant professor at the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. The program recognizes early career faculty who show exemplary dedication to their institution's mission and act as academic role models. Erickson’s project, “Scaling Up…
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will develop AI-based tools that will enable autonomous laboratories to work together as one connected research ecosystem. The project has been selected to receive funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the Genesis Mission. The post Connecting Autonomous Laboratories to Speed Scientific Advancement appeared first on Robotics Institute…
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 materials and reducing the cost and time for exploration and extraction. The post Harnessing AI to Find Critical Minerals appeared first on Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University .
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. The post Snake Robots Support Earthquake Search and Rescue in Venezuela appeared first on Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University .
The Breakdown In 18% of cases, Claude, GPT-5 and Gemini fabricated medical diagnoses, despite supporting images being omitted. The AI models used demographic-based clinical assumptions to invent these diagnoses. CMU research emphasizes the need for demographic sensitivity testing and verification before deploying AI tools in medical systems. * * * Siddharth Vohra is in [...] The post Healthcare…
Carnegie Mellon University showcased a number of exciting new partnerships, technologies and research during the 2026 Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit. The event, hosted by U.S. Sen. David McCormick, ran from July 14-15 at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The post CMU Advances Defense Manufacturing and Military Education at Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit…
Leveraging more than $50 million in Carnegie Mellon investments in robotics, advanced manufacturing and commercialization infrastructure, the initiative brings together CMU’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), Carnegie Foundry and multiple leading U.S. drone manufacturers to create a new Autonomous Systems Manufacturing Platform (ASMP). The post Carnegie Foundry, Carnegie Mellon and…
Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Innovation Center (RIC) welcomed global technology company Fujitsu Limited as its latest corporate tenant in the university’s robotics and artificial intelligence research facility at Hazelwood Green. The post Fujitsu Joins CMU Robotics Innovation Center appeared first on Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University .
The Breakdown: RIO lets researchers use the same software across different robots, reducing the need to rebuild code for each new platform. This functionality speeds up robot setup and lets researchers spend more time developing and testing robot behaviors. The system helps accelerate robotics research and real-world deployment. * * * Researchers set up [...] The post The Missing Infrastructure…
