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Jun 7, 2023

MRSD excels at ICRA 2023

By |2023-09-08T14:27:04-04:00June 7th, 2023|

The 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) was held in London, England from May 29 through June 2.  The Robotics Institute had a strong presence at the event, and MRSD students and grads received recognition for their fantastic work.  Yilin Cai, who just graduated from the program on May 12, won Outstanding Manipulation [...]

Mar 27, 2023

MRSD Students win medals at the McGinnis Venture Competition

By |2023-09-08T14:27:05-04:00March 27th, 2023|

On March 21, CMU's community of student entrepreneurs competed for $60K in investments during the final presentations of the McGinnis Venture Competition.  The multi-round competition started in January, and the final round included about 50 students comprising 14 teams.  After the 6-minute presentations, awards were announced. 1st place team is D.Sole, which includes Zilin Zhang [...]

Apr 18, 2022

Gatik (co-founded by Gautam Narang, MRSD ’15) reaches new milestone

By |2023-09-08T14:27:05-04:00April 18th, 2022|

Gautam Narang (MRSD ’15) co-founded Gatik in 2017, and he is the CEO.  In August 2021, Gatik became the first autonomous trucking company worldwide to operate fully driverless, middle-mile commercial deliveries. The company makes daily runs on a fixed, repeatable route for Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas, delivering customer orders from a dark store to a [...]

Jul 6, 2020

IROS accepts paper from 2019 Team G

By |2023-09-08T14:27:05-04:00July 6th, 2020|

The International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (known as IROS) recently accepted the paper Adaptive Informative Sampling with Environment Partitioning for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems submitted by four MRSD alumni from the graduating Class of 2020.  Team G, comprised of Yunfei Shi, Ning Wang, Yang Zhang, & Jianmin Zheng, worked hard for all of 2019 [...]

May 6, 2020

MRSD Students Excel at MBZIRC 2020

By |2023-09-08T14:27:05-04:00May 6th, 2020|

This spring MRSD students from the Class of 2020 successfully competed in the MBZ International Robotics Competition. The competition took place in Abu Dhabi and involved multiple challenges that tested the state of the art of unpersonned aerial vehicle (UAVs) interacting with their surroundings. Team R.A.M.S achieved 4th place out of 19 teams in the aerial block [...]

Oct 10, 2019

Aishanou Rait (MRSD ’16) featured in recent employee spotlight interview

By |2023-09-08T14:27:05-04:00October 10th, 2019|

2016 MRSD alumna Aishanou Rait works at Starsky Robotics, a San Francisco-based start-up focused on self-driving trucks. They recently featured her in an employee spotlight interview, where Aishanou explains her entrance into the field of robotics from her personal point of view as a female. She also outlines what life is like at a busy [...]

Jul 11, 2019

Reese Mozer (MRSD ’15) and Eitan Babcock (MRSD ’16) expand American Robotics

By |2023-09-08T14:27:06-04:00July 11th, 2019|

Co-Founders Reese Mozer (MRSD ’15, CEO) and Eitan Babcock (MRSD ’16, Chief Roboticist) of American Robotics, a Boston-based start-up focused on developing automated industrial drones, continue to find success. AR has raised $6.5 million in total funding thus far to support expansion of the team and further development of its pilotless drone technology. The successful [...]

Sep 25, 2018

Stephen Smith (MRSD ’15) now CTO of TerrAvion

By |2023-09-08T14:27:06-04:00September 25th, 2018|

2015 MRSD alumnus Stephen Smith has recently been named the Chief Technology Office (CTO) of TerrAvion.  TerrAvion is the largest volume subscription provider of aerial imagery in the US. They do 100 times more imagery than the entire electric drone industry and handle more data than the top 10 satellite imagery services combined. Subscription aerial imagery allows the [...]

Aug 7, 2018

Rucha Yantra LLP founded by Rohit Dashrathi (MRSD ’16)

By |2023-09-08T14:27:06-04:00August 7th, 2018|

2016 MRSD alumnus Rohit Dashrathi founded Rucha Yantra LLP.  Yantra is a tech start-up based in India that is working to solve the problems in the field of material handling with Mobile Robotics – or as they call it, “Mobotics.” An R&D organization by nature, Yantra specializes in indigenous designing and development, as well as manufacturing [...]

Jan 10, 2018

Master of Science in Robotic Systems Development Fund

By |2023-09-08T14:27:06-04:00January 10th, 2018|

MRSD Students are a hard-working and diverse group who devote a great deal of time and energy to their studies. A new fund has been established to allow donations to directly benefit current students, in the form of conference attendance/travel, lab improvements, equipment updates, and special events for the program. Provide a Gift to MRSD

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