CMU Robotics Institute

Pittsburgh is the only place for a “Robot Doctor.” Carnegie Mellon University is the only place in the world to offer a Ph.D in Robotics. The Robotics Institute (RI) is a division of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is considered to be one of the leading centers of robotics research in the world. The RI was established in 1979, and was the first robotics department at any US university. Even when robotics technologies were relatively primitive, their potential role in boosting the productivity and competitiveness of the United States was foreseen in the evolving global marketplace. The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University was established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks. Seeking to combine the practical and the theoretical, the Robotics Institute has diversified its efforts and approaches to robotics science while retaining its original goal of realizing the potential of the robotics field. The facility is approximately 80,000 square feet on the Oakland Campus, 100,000 square feet at the National Robotics Engineering Center in Lawrenceville and 7,000 square feet and 40 acres of testing fields at Robot City, the new Field Robotics location in Hazelwood. The Robotics Institute has a budget of over $65 million a year. The Robotics Institute was the first Robotics department in any US university. Robotics Institute research volume has doubled every 7 years since its founding. Check out their futuristic and amazing work at www.ri.cmu.edu