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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1979 |
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| Campus | Urban |
| Website | http://www.ri.cmu.edu/ |
The Robotics Institute (RI) is a division of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. A June 2014 article in Robotics Business Review magazine calls it "the world's best robotics research facility" and a "pacesetter in robotics research and education."[1]
The Robotics Institute focuses on bringing robotics into everyday activities. Its faculty members and graduate students examine a variety of fields, including space robotics, medical robotics, industrial systems, computer vision and artificial intelligence, and they develop a broad array of robotics systems and capabilities.[1]
Established in 1979 by Raj Reddy,[2] the RI was the first robotics department at any U.S. university.[3] In 1988, CMU became the first university in the world offering a Ph.D. in Robotics.
In 2012, the faculty, staff, students and postdocs numbered over 500,[3] and the RI annual budget exceeded $65M,[3] making the RI one of the largest robotics research organizations in the world.[4]
The RI occupies facilities on the Carnegie Mellon main campus as well as in the Lawrenceville and Hazelwood neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, totaling almost 200,000 sq. ft of indoor space and 40 acres of outdoor test facilities.
- ^ a b Edwards, John (6 June 2014). "Carnegie Mellon: The World's Premier Robotics Institute?". roboticsbusinessreview.com. Robotics Business Review. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
- ^ "Robotics Institute: History of the Robotics Institute". Archived from the original on 2015-06-27. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
- ^ a b c Robotics Institute: About the Robotics Institute Archived May 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The 10 Best Universities For Robotics In The US". Business Insider. Retrieved 2017-05-18.