The CraterGrader Team (MRSD 2023) - comprised of John Harrington, Ryan Lee, Alexander Pletta, Russell Q. Wong, and Benjamin Younes, supervised by William "Red" Whittaker - had their paper accepted and successfully presented at the prestigious Robotic Science and Systems (RSS) conference. The team’s efforts throughout their MRSD program culminated in an innovative system [...]
Paulo joined MRSD in the fall of 2018 after decades of work experience in industry. He achieved great things during MRSD, and has now founded his third company, Symbol. Read more about Paulo and his journey here: https://www.cmu.edu/engage/about-us/news/alumni/profile-pcamasmie.html
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
