CMU Robotics Institute

卡内基梅隆大学机器人研究所CMU RICommon

The world's first academic robotics department, founded in 1979 and based in Pittsburgh.

The CMU Robotics Institute was founded in 1979 by Raj Reddy and Angel Jordan with a $3 million grant from Westinghouse Electric, the world's first academic department dedicated to robotics, and it launched the world's first robotics PhD program in 1988. In its early years it was known for autonomous driving: the Navlab series of self-driving vehicles, and Boss, which won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge; Hans Moravec, who proposed 'Moravec's paradox,' also came out of the institute. In recent years it has been equally active in embodied AI — for example, Deepak Pathak's group produced Extreme Parkour and the LEAP Hand, and Guanya Shi's group contributed to the humanoid whole-body control work ASAP. Pathak and Abhinav Gupta also co-founded the robot foundation-model company Skild AI.

ExampleCMU's self-driving car Boss won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, completing the 55-mile course in about 4 hours and 20 minutes.

Also called: Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
Related: Skild AI · Moravec's Paradox · Extreme Parkour · LEAP Hand · ASAP · Autonomous Driving
Sources: Robotics Institute - Wikipedia