Carnegie Mellon University
Team Chiron Takes Autonomous Disaster Triage Robots to DARPA Finals
Carnegie Mellon University’s Team Chiron is competing in the finals of DARPA’s Triage Challenge with autonomous drones, ground robots and AI designed to help emergency…
CMU and NFL Train AI Models to Understand Football
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are building AI models that can learn football from official NFL film and on-field player-tracking data. The project aims to…
Carnegie Mellon Names Jason Brown CEO of Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University has named Jason M. Brown as director and chief executive officer of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a federally funded research and…
CMU's Wiggle and Go Teaches Robots to Handle Ropes With One Quick Shake
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed Wiggle and Go, a system in which a robot briefly wiggles a rope or cable, watches how it responds and estimates…
Manuela Veloso, AI and Robotics Pioneer, Receives CMU's 2026 Founders Medal
Carnegie Mellon University has awarded its 2026 Founders Medal to Manuela M. Veloso, an AI, computer science and robotics researcher who founded and led JPMorganChase AI…
Air opens 35,536-square-foot Pittsburgh office in the Strip District
Air, which describes itself as the leader in Enterprise Readiness, has opened a new 35,536-square-foot office in Pittsburgh's Strip District. The company says the site…
Pink Slime Sites Posing as Local News Drew Millions in Facebook Ads, CMU Finds
Partisan media operations spent millions of dollars on Facebook ads before key elections to promote "pink slime" websites that pose as local news, according to new…
CoreWeave Commits $6 Billion to Lancaster, Pennsylvania AI Data Center
CoreWeave is committing an initial $6 billion to build a new AI data center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia. The company says the site has room to grow…
CMU's MultiVerse Lets Artists Control How AI Adapts Their Lyrics
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed MultiVerse, a tool that lets songwriters set limits on how AI changes their lyrics for individual listeners. The…
Lucas Systems and CMU team up on data models for warehouse workforce planning
Warehouse software provider Lucas Systems has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) on research into algorithmic planning, aiming to help warehouse supervisors…
ResearchSEI Names Seven Cyber Research Priorities as AI Reshapes Attacks and Defense
The Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University has published a framework of seven cybersecurity research areas containing 37 priority topics, arguing…
Microsoft and CMU Launch PRAISE Program to Train Junior Engineers in AI
Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft have launched the Preceptorship for AI-accelerated Software Engineering (PRAISE), a program that combines online CMU coursework…
CMU's Andrea Bajcsy Wins Packard Fellowship for Robot Safety Research
Andrea Bajcsy, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Kenneth C. Griffin School of Computer Science, has received a 2026 Packard Fellowship for Science…
Apple Researchers Cut Search Agent Reasoning Latency by Over 90%
Apple researchers have proposed Selection-based Structured Reasoning (SSR), a framework in which small multimodal search agents choose their reasoning from pre-specified…
ResearchSchmidt Sciences Gives $10 Million to 19 AI and Humanities Projects
Schmidt Sciences will give $10 million to 19 research teams that apply artificial intelligence to problems in the humanities, from a shattered marble map of Rome to…
Three Carnegie Mellon Faculty Named 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellows
Three faculty members at Carnegie Mellon University's Kenneth C. Griffin School of Computer Science have been named 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellows. The program is…
CMU's Ataraxos AI Beats Top Human Players at Stratego
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have built an AI system called Ataraxos that can outperform even the best human players in Stratego, a board game in which…
CMU Robotics Team Helps Northrop Grumman Dock With and Refuel Satellites
Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute has helped Northrop Grumman develop a docking technique for spacecraft that refuel and repair satellites in…
CMU Researchers Build Low-Cost Robotic Fingertip That Can Feel Pills and Chips
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have designed a robotic fingertip that senses both squeezing pressure and microvibrations, letting a robot hand handle small…
CMU Opens Robotics Labs to Hundreds of IROS 2026 Conference Attendees
Hundreds of academics and industry leaders in robotics toured Carnegie Mellon University's robotics and engineering facilities on Oct. 1 as part of the International…
ResearchNew AI system Ataraxos beats top human players at Stratego
A research team from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University and Stanford University has built an AI system called Ataraxos that defeated top-ranked human…
Ken Griffin Gives Carnegie Mellon $3 Billion to Launch CMU Miami Campus
Carnegie Mellon University has received a $3 billion gift from Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin, which the university calls the largest individual gift in the history…
CMU and Siemens Build PRISM to Tell When Humanoid Robots Can Stop Safely
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Siemens have developed PRISM, a method that assesses the "safe stoppability" of humanoid robots and alerts human operators…