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-...
Robotic Caregiving & Human Interaction Lab researchers are developing assistive robots that use natural conversation & adapt to human preferences!
The new system enables bidirectional communication, in which robots to listen & adjust movements based on user input.
Read about it! bit.ly/4srtI2r
The Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute Pathways Fellowship, an initiative designed to nurture non-traditional entrepreneurial talent in robotics and technology is now accepting applications for its 2026-2027 cohort.
Introducing BFM-Zero! 🦾💃💫
The all-purpose behavior foundation model from the RI LeCAR Lab and Meta helps humanoid robots learn and complete tasks without needing to be retrained for each one!
Read about this incredible work: www.ri.cmu.edu/helping-robo...
The Extended Reality Technology Center (XRTC) hosted their third annual symposium in November! The two-day event brought together faculty, students, industry collaborators, and partners from across the XR community. 📹👀✨
www.cmu.edu/xrtc/news/20...
A man's hand holds black camera in a forest
RI's Matt O’Toole worked with Ph.D. Yingsi Qin & Prof. Aswin Sankaranarayanan from CMU Electrical & Computer Engineering to develop a new kind of lens that can bring an entire scene into sharp focus at once 📸
They received Best Paper Honorable Mention at #ICCV2025!
www.ece.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...
Congratulations to the recipients of the inaugural RI Graduate Student Awards, which celebrate excellence in research, teaching, mentorship, & community engagement! 👏🏆
See the full list of winners and honorable mentions on our Facebook: www.facebook.com/share/p/1KBF...
#TartanProud #CMUrobotics
Scenes from the Robot Fashion Show, held at the Humanoids’25 conference & co-hosted by the University of Seoul Startup Support Foundation!
The show’s theme centered on safety and coexistence and challenged static, industrial images of robotics.
Read about the event! 👉 bit.ly/3JJw6QF
First place was awarded to Vivian Shen from the Robotics Institute for her presentation titled, "Body-Aligned Design for Haptic Immersion in Extended Reality."
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In 2025, 🥇 went to a @cmurobotics.bsky.social student. 🥈🥉 to @cmuengineering.bsky.social.
Register to compete in the 2026 #3MTCMU competition by 2/4. cmu.is/2026-3MT-Compete
Team Chiron, a group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, will compete in the third and final phase of the DARPA Triage Challenge (DTC) next November! 👏
Read about their advancement through the challenge: www.ri.cmu.edu/team-chiron-...
Researchers at CMU’s Robotics Institute have developed a new system that helps robots operate effectively in cluttered, unpredictable environments like kitchens, classrooms and offices — a huge step toward making robots more capable in everyday settings.
www.ri.cmu.edu/new-system-b...
New research from Carnegie Mellon University & @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social shows that robots powered by popular AI models are currently unsafe for real-world use 🌎🚨
The paper was recently published in the International Journal of Social Robotics.
Read more:
bit.ly/4hSNlLH
Carnegie Mellon will collaborate on a federally funded project to rethink and redesign wheelchairs.
@cmurobotics.bsky.social researchers will spearhead the software integration of a robotic arm into the wheelchair design.
The project is funded up to $41.5 million by @arpa-h.bsky.social.
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