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Imagination Meets Automation With BrickGPT
Fusing artificial intelligence and imagination, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed a tool that uses text prompts to help people — and even robots — bring ideas to life with Lego bricks.
Changliu Liu Earns IFAC Robotics Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Changliu Liu, associate professor at the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University, earned the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Robotics Outstanding Young Researcher Award “for significant and sustained contributions in intelligent robot control with provable safety and efficient human-robot collaboration in manufacturing, logistics,[...]
In Flight With NASA: CMU Tests Space Tech in Microgravity
Carnegie Mellon University faculty and students recently experienced something few ever have: weightlessness. Aboard a plane that follows an unusual flight path – steep climbs followed by dramatic dives – members of the Robotics Exploration Lab in CMU's Robotics Institute (RI) put their research through[...]
Robots With Moves Like Ronaldo, LeBron and Kobe
After scoring a goal, soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo will run to the sideline, leap into the air, spin 180 degrees, land with arms outstretched and shout “Siu.” When LeBron James hits a clutch shot, he celebrates with the “Silencer,” rhythmically stomping his feet while forcefully[...]
Robotics Alum Earns PAMI Young Researcher Honorable Mention
Ishan Misra, who earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in 2018, received a 2025 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young Researcher Award honorable mention at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). The honor recognizes early career researchers[...]
ViSafe: Smarter Vision for Safer Skies
Every day, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) handles tens of thousands of flights. Airspace traffic not only involves commercial planes, but helicopters, experimental lightcraft, freight carriers and an increasing number of uncrewed aerial systems (UAS). As air traffic density increases, so does the need[...]