Changliu Liu, a faculty member in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, and members of her Intelligent Control Lab watch them as well. But they see these failures as dramatic exampl...

Carnegie Mellon University’s deep roots and latest innovations in robotics will be on display during the 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

Robotics expert Changliu Liu explains.

Building on nearly a decade of growth at the Swartz Center and Carnegie Mellon's longstanding leadership in artificial intelligence, robotics, engineering, computer science and the sciences, Shelton will lead the center's next chapter.

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 Devel...

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 mater...

A Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science student recently showed that large language models (LLMs) intermittently invent false information when responding to medical questions.

Researchers in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science have developed an open-source software framework designed to eliminate much of that setup work, making it easier to deploy AI s...

Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are developing a new way for robots to learn everyday tasks like grasping a coffee mug or opening a drawer by watching videos of ...

Fire blight can devastate orchards, killing branches and entire trees while causing major economic losses for growers. To help farmers detect the disease earlier and reduce the spread of infection, a ...

Deepak Pathak, the Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Robotics in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI), has received a 2026 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Young Researc...

We present IA-TIGRIS, an incremental and adaptive sampling-based informative path planner that can be run efficiently with onboard computation.

A mass email from the dean to the entire Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science felt especially personal to Beverly (Bev) Da Costa.  The email, sent by Martial Hebert back in 2023, anno...

The Breakdown:  World2Rules learns patterns of risky aircraft behavior from real airport operations and incident data. It explains its warnings in simple terms that are easy for humans to understand. ...

A research group at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) will host the latest phase of the Vision-Language-Navigation (VLN) Challenge, bringing researchers together to enable robots to...

Robotics Seminar series hosted by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.

Imagine standing courtside during a championship basketball game, hearing the squeak of sneakers echo across the hardwood as players weave past each other. As the ball arcs toward the hoop, you change...

YouTube video by CMU Robotics Institute

Researchers in the School of Computer Science and Cornell University developed a new assistive feeding algorithm, Wearable Approach for Feeding With Learned Bite Timing (WAFFLE), that can be integrate...

YouTube video by CMU Robotics Institute

Researchers in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science have developed a system that automatically improves PDF accessibility.

A team led by Carnegie Mellon University’s Aaron Steinfeld has earned the inaugural Test of Time Award at the 2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

PennDOT works with other states to collaborate on highly automated vehicles and their evolving regulations as the technology becomes more common.

Todd Jochem (SCS 1993, 1996) has been in the driver’s seat of autonomous vehicles for decades. Long before “self-driving car” became a household phrase, he was helping to demonstrate the technology co...

Discover James McCann’s research reimagining classic infinity mirrors. Using LED arrays, parallax barriers, and 3D-printed textures, McCann creates a “speed tunnel” effect that challenges perception a...

Deepak Pathak, the Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Robotics in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI), has received a 2026 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ON...

When a drone enters a burning building to assist with search and rescue, visibility can vanish in seconds. Camera feeds dissolve into gray. Laser scanners scatter unpredictably off airborne ash. In th...

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Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Innovation Center has secured its first corporate tenant, bringing the high-growth robotics unicorn FieldAI to the university’s new research facility at Hazelwood...

NavLab or Navigation Laboratory was the first self-driving car with people riding on board. It was very slow, but for 1986 computing power, it was revolutio...

SCS faculty members Aayush Jain, Aditi Raghunathan and Jun-Yan Zhu have received 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships.

A new report from Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab examines how steelmaking influences economic opportunity and environmental conditions in southwestern Pennsylvania.

The Breakdown:  New RI software works with a handheld imaging tool to map skin texture in 3D.  The software turns subtle skin surface changes into measurable data. This research could help clinicians ...

Robotics Institute Assistant Professor Shubham Tulsiani received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop perception systems that better understand the 3D world.

For a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship project, Carnegie Mellon University sophomore Jasmine Li worked with robotic arms in the Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction Lab to analyze the robo...