Marked with a visit from Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Carnegie Mellon University officially opened the Robotics Innovation Center on February 27. CMU is a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, and the new 150,000-square-foot center sited in Hazelwood Green will serve as a proving ground for the university’s robotics, automation, and AI breakthroughs.
Government, community, foundation, and industry leaders were invited to tour the facility and attend a riveting mix of robotic demonstrations. Housing more than 50 labs and working groups, the Robotics Innovation Center will support the creation and testing of robots for use on land and in water, air, space, and even in humans.
To accelerate research and development and fuel economic growth, industry is welcome to partner with the center, and FieldAI became the first corporate tenant. FieldAI, a unicorn company, is transforming industrial operations through physically embodied robotic AI and autonomy. Ascribing to the notion that breakthroughs don’t happen in isolation, the company sees benefit in setting up a location in the Robotics Innovation Center, where researchers, entrepreneurs, and students will collaborate and create.
