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…and community, acccording to the PRN. “We at the University of Pittsburgh are committed to supporting this important initiative, as it aligns with our own vision of fostering a culture of innovation and preparing our students for cutting-edge careers in technology and robotics,” said Bruce Childers, dean of the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh and a PRN board member. “We believe that this effort will not only drive regional economic growth, but also further solidify Pittsburgh into a global hub for robotics talent and innovation.” The Pittsburgh Robotics Network represents the companies and leaders who…
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…systems.” The ARM Institute was created in 2017 after Carnegie Mellon University won a bid to start an institution focusing on workforce development and the use of robotics to boost U.S. competitiveness, according to its website. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. “We exist to strengthen U.S. manufacturing through innovations in advanced manufacturing technology, particularly robotics and AI, and prepare the workforce to work alongside these technologies,” stated the ARM Institute on its webpage. “Working across industry, government, and academia, we leverage a robust ecosystem to fulfill our vision and mission.” A DAWG in the manufacturing sector…
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…Ventures was founded in 2009 by Kai-Fu Lee, who developed a continuous speech-recognition system for his doctoral thesis at Carnegie Mellon University and who later led Microsoft Research Asia and Google China. “MegaRobo's technology increases efficiency in production automation,” stated Dr. Ingo Ramesohl, managing director at RBVC. “Already today, robots from MegaRobo are used for special applications in the end-of-line production of household appliances at Bosch. Beyond these applications, we see many other opportunities for cooperation between MegaRobo and Bosch.”
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…Conference on Community Development, and Farnam Jahanian, president of Carnegie Mellon University. The Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative said its partners include labor groups, educational institutions, workforce and economic development organizations, businesses, and more. During the application process, the collaborative convened a coalition of more than 90 public and private organizations representing 11 counties in southwestern Pennsylvania. The counties were Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Washington, and Westmoreland. The Pittsburgh Robotics Network (PRN) is representing the robotics industry, and it will collaborate with Innovation Works on one of the projects. “The collaborative extends its sincere gratitude…
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…Robotics American Robotics was founded by leading roboticists from Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University and focuses on designing, developing, and marketing drones for real-world environments. It offers Scout as a “drone-in-a-box” turnkey data service under a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) business model. American Robotics noted that Scout is the first and only drone system approved by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for automated beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations with no humans on site. In the six months since it received FAA approval, the company has reported an 80% increase in business-development activity in key industrial sectors, including infrastructure. In addition,…
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…Alert Morgan received a B.S. in physics from Clark University and a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering with a focus in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. Fritz Morgan In the 1990s, Morgan made key contributions both technically and as an executive leader at Color Kinetics, which claimed to sparked the shift to LEDs that has transformed the $100 billion global lighting industry. He helped lead that company in scaling globally and going public. Prior to joining Alert Innovation, Morgan served as executive vice president and chief technology officer at DEKA Research and Development Corp., where he led a…
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…Galluzzo and Vladimir Altman, robotics engineers who worked at Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center. Having worked on advanced projects in computer vision, embedded systems and autonomous manipulation, they were drawn into the industry by a customer who asked if they could develop a robot that picked items from warehouse shelving. Like many companies, this customer faced high labor turnover and hiring issues. The result was the first autonomous mobile manipulation robot worker that performed fundamental picking tasks in human environments. “We’re expanding what is possible to accomplish with autonomous robots,” said Galluzzo, CTO. “There is a great deal…
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…Form Automation Source: Boeing Principal Investigator: Boeing Project Team: University of Southern California and 3M Project Description: This project seeks to develop adaptive path planning to ensure affordability of Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC) components for hypersonic platforms, or an object that exceeds 5 the speed-of-sound (Mach 5 or greater). The project also seeks to integrate improvements to automated pick, place, and form for processing CMC fabric prepregs using 3D vision-based sensors to reduce the cost and variability for high-rate production of CMC structures. Benefits of this approach include having a cost-competitive alternative to titanium, higher processing efficiency, and applications for…
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…Institute has also endorsed programs at the following organizations: Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy, Clover Park Technical College, Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC), Fortress Academy, Horizon Science Academy Columbus High School (HSA), and the National Coalition of Certification Centers (NC3). It has also endorsed programs at Universal Robots, the University of Maryland, the University of Washington, Wichita State University Campus of Applied Sciences and Technology (WSU Tech), and Wichita State University, Department of Engineering Technology. About RoboticsCareer.org RoboticsCareer.org supports U.S. workers through each stage of their professional lives – from students exploring career options to incumbent workers looking to take…
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…been founded in 2012 by Galluzzo and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center, in the summer of 2014, it was largely a PowerPoint presentation on his laptop in the summer of 2014. I’m not sure if they’d gone live with a website at that point. But, with support from Rochester Drug Cooperative, Galluzzo and his team had built an autonomous mobile piece-picking robot that could go up and down a warehouse aisle and pick items from a shelf to a tote. At the time, they nicknamed it GOFER, which stood for general order fulfillment robot. Galluzzo now…
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…we don't require preoperative CT scans.” Smith+Nephew builds on university connections In 2015, Smith+Nephew acquired Blue Belt Technologies, a spinoff from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). CMU founded the world's first robotics Ph.D. program in 1988 and claims that its Robotics Institute is the world's largest robotics R&D organization. The institute includes the National Robotics Engineering Center, which has been commercializing technlogies for practical industrial applications for more than 25 years. “I came out of CMU and joined Blue Belt Technologies, which was just starting off with medical robotics,” Mitra said. “Our first offices and production of systems were in Pittsburgh,…
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…million. “As a member of the faculty at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, I have the privilege of engaging with students and faculty who define the state of the art in AI and robotics,” said Nate Michael, chief technology officer of Shield AI. “I joined Shield AI in the early days because it represented an opportunity to transition leading technologies from the lab to applications for good at a global scale.” “We are now well positioned to achieve this objective,” said Michael. “With this investment, we will further scale our AI operations to more rapidly solve pressing problems facing…