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...
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
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...
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...
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...
“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.
#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...
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...
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...
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...
Rishi Veerapaneni
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.
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.
In 1986, Carnegie Mellon researchers developed one of the first cars to be controlled by a computer, the Navigation Laboratory (Navlab 1).
What started as a bold blue modified Chevy gave way to a series of CMU-created semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles.
Congrats to Three Minute Thesis #3MT preliminary round 3 co-winner, Ruihan Gao of @cmurobotics.bsky.social at @scsatcmu.bsky.social! 📣
Gao's presentation is titled, "Teaching AI the Sense of Touch."
⏰ Join us for the #3MTCMU Championship! 🗓️ 3/25, 6-8pm
💻 Register to attend: cmu.is/2026-3MT-Champ
Carnegie Mellon has a long legacy of pushing the boundaries of research and innovation in #robotics. 🤖
Explore the robust history of robotics at CMU, compiled by
@library.cmu.edu.
@cmurobotics.bsky.social
3 SCS faculty members are among 5 CMU researchers selected to receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2026! #TartanProud
Aayush Jain, Aditi Raghunathan, + Jun-Yan Zhu join 123 other researchers announced as fellows, chosen from more than 1k nominations!
www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/sl...
I am thrilled to share that COSMO-Bench was accepted to #ICRA2026 and already has >1.3k downloads!🎉
COSMO-Bench provides high-quality benchmark datasets to aid building the next generation of collaborative SLAM!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.16731
Download: cosmobench.com
A new report from the CREATE Lab examines how steelmaking influences economic opportunity and environmental conditions in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Learn more! 👇
www.ri.cmu.edu/create-lab-s...
Arthur C. Sanderson, one of the founding co-directors of the CMU Robotics Institute (@cmurobotics.bsky.social), died in December at his home in Florida. He was 79.
#IROS2026 will convene in Pittsburgh from September 27 – October 1!
As one of the largest & most dynamic robotics conferences, IROS brings together world-leading researchers, educators, government leaders, startups, industry innovators, practitioners, & investors 👇
2026.ieee-iros.org
Work from CMU may someday help doctors measure skin health as precisely as a blood test!
Researchers are turning that possibility into reality with new software that works with a compact imaging device to bring the skin's landscape into clearer focus🔬
bit.ly/46j1ZHw
Carnegie Mellon's CREATE Lab is helping to preserve Pittsburgh's vibrant public #art scene, one pixel at a time.
Using innovative CMU imaging technology developed at the lab, Richard Palmer captures ultra-high-resolution images of large-scale artwork that defines our city.
@cmurobotics.bsky.social
Congrats to RI Assistant Prof. Shubham Tulsiani for receiving an NSF Career Award! 🏅👏
His project aims to bridge the gap between how machines perceive the 3D world and their understanding of how actions impact the world they're observing.
Read more about his work: www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/tu...
Volunteering at retirement homes inspired CMU student Jasmine Li to explore how #robotics can help people with everyday tasks.
Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Li worked with a bimanual robot arm to analyze its behaviors when faced with human activities.
@cmurobotics.bsky.social
At CMU, we are exploring how robotics, AI and autonomy research can work together to save lives in real-world situations.
Today, CMU's Team Chiron demonstrated robotic dog and drone disaster response technology for @cbsnews.com.
Tune in to @cbseveningnews.bsky.social tonight for the full feature!
RI alumni Aditya Sripada & Abhishek Warrier sat down for a Q&A to discuss how a science fiction idea evolved into a real-world robot called TARS3D, what motivated them to pursue the project, and how their time at CMU shaped their approach! 👇
#TartanProud
Q&A link: www.ri.cmu.edu/from-sci-fi-...