• How CMU Built a World-Leading Robotics Ecosystem Media Inquiries From the depths of the ocean to the craters of the moon, Carnegie Mellon University has spent more than 40 years designing robots for the most extreme environments • 27, the university will open the Robotics Innovation Center(opens in new window) (RIC), a 150,000-square-foot facility built to scale that research for the next generation of autonomous systems • By providing specialized environments for land, air and water-based robotics, the center marks the latest expansion of an ecosystem that began in 1979 with the founding of the world’s first academic department devoted to robotics • A different way of thinking about robotics CMU launched the Robotics Institute(opens in new window) with the ambitious premise that robotics research requires more than mechanical systems alone • From its earliest days, the Robotics Institute focused on building robots capable of operating in the real world: systems that could sense their surroundings, reason about uncertainty and act autonomously • Since then, its research continued to span areas where those capabilities were essential, like intelligent manufacturing, self-driving

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  • How CMU Built a World-Leading Robotics Ecosystem Media Inquiries From the depths of the ocean to the craters of the moon, Carnegie Mellon University has spent more than 40 years designing robots for the most extreme environments. On Feb. 27, the university will open the Robotics Innovation Center(opens in new window) (RIC), a 150,000-square-foot facility built to scale that research for the next generation of autonomous systems. By providing specialized environments for land, air and water-based robotics, the center marks the latest expansion of an ecosystem that began in 1979 with the foundin

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