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Manipulation is harder when the robot flies. 🚁
Moving the arm can shift the drone, and wind can push it off course. The policy and controller have to work together.
Here's AM-Bench: A Simulation Suite and Benchmark for Aerial Manipulation
ambench.github.io
#CoRL2026
Why do humans like to watch robots fall?
Associate Professor Changliu Liu (@ChangliuL) weighs in on this phenomenon on CNN! 👇 #TartanProud
cnn.com/2026/09/11/world/vid…
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Humans learn by interacting with the world: How can we teach robots to similarly adapt to ambiguous dynamics? Introducing Wiggle and Go! #CoRL2026. We find that a specialized model can learn rope properties from just one interaction, and complete complex dynamic tasks.
The robot wiggles a rope once, figures out how it behaves, then goes, using the estimated dynamics to execute the task. No real-world training data. No retries. #robotics #robotlearning
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We introduce GTA-2, a multi-VLM framework that synthesizes executable robot manipulation skills from reusable, object-centric task-axis components
Zero-shot, no task-specific demonstrations or training.
gta2-project.github.io 🧵 1/9
Make sure to check out the new season of the SCS podcast “Does Compute”!
Our very own @andrea_bajcsy is featured now! 🤖🦾
Training robots to move with knowledge humans intuit is difficult. In rethinking safety, incorporating new kinds of data and finding value in failure, Andrea Bajcsy, of @CMU_Robotics, is trying to do just that. Hear how on this episode of Does Compute.
bit.ly/3VjbaVO
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The CMU Paths to AI Research Program (PAIR) connects undergrads with graduate student mentors from across SCS who provide perspective on opportunities, questions and uncertainty that come with pursuing artificial intelligence research! #TartanProud
cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/pair-ai…
Text2TactileGraphics turns text prompts into 3D-printed raised graphics that incorporate shape, texture and Braille.
It can help people with low vision create & explore tactile representations of objects that might otherwise be difficult to experience!
ri.cmu.edu/bringing-images-t…
RI seminars are BACK for the fall semester!
📆 Fridays
⏰2:30pm
📍Tepper 1403
YouTube playlist (bookmark this if you ever can’t make a seminar!): youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
Join us this Friday for our first kickoff w/ Stephanie Gil!
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Sept 15, @southpkcommons & @CarnegieMellon will gather the research community to discuss the density of robotics + deep tech talent that come out of CMU
We have a stacked line up from @CMU_Robotics
@damionshelton, (founder of @agilityrobotics)
Deva Ramanan
Howie Choset
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Where do foundational models actually meet the real world?
That's the question behind the 3rd AI Meets Autonomy workshop at IROS 2026!
📍 Pittsburgh | 🗓️ Thu, Oct 1 | 8:00–12:30 AM #IROS2026 🧵👇
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CMU recently welcomed Takahito Tokita, CEO of @FujitsuOfficial, and Yasuhiko Hashimoto, President and CEO of Kawasaki Heavy Industries.
They visited the Robotics Innovation Center, @NREC_CMU and the AI Science Foundry, CMU’s Biological and Chemical Innovation Cloud Lab.
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2週間前くらいだけど、@CMU_Robotics のSummer Programを修了しました〜
ビーズを使ったソフトロボティクスの研究をやってました。9月末までCMUで研究を続けて、最後はピッツバーグで開催される #IROS2026 に参加して帰国予定です〜
ちゃんと論文としてまとめられるように頑張ります!
RI alum Damion Shelton has been named Associate VP and Executive Director of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship!
Congrats, @damionshelton! 👏
cmu.edu/news/stories/archive…
Congrats to Asst. Prof. Zackory Erickson for earning an @NSF CAREER award!
His project will develop a new framework that enables robots to learn from a virtually unlimited supply of automatically generated, physically realistic interaction scenarios.
ri.cmu.edu/erickson-earns-ns…
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🚀Excited to share Qwen-3D (ECCV 2026) — a generalist 3D vision–language model that does grounding, segmentation, VQA, and spatial reasoning in one place. VLMs are great at images and short clips, but long videos bury them in tokens. Our idea: put multi-view frames into a shared 3D world, so attention scales with what’s in the scene, not how many frames you feed it.
📄arxiv.org/abs/2608.02980
🌐qwen-3d.github.io
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Artur Dubrawski is leading a project to develop an AI framework that transforms how critical minerals are discovered. This @ENERGY investment will make exploration faster and more precise to strengthen domestic supply chains. cmu.edu/news/stories/archive…
What started as a call for help brought CMU researchers and their snake robots to Venezuela, where they joined search and rescue teams working to explore spaces too dangerous or difficult for people to reach.
The story behind the mission: cmu.edu/news/stories/archive…
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Carnegie Mellon brought robotics, #AI and learning science to the 2026 Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, with faculty, startups and university leaders showcasing how CMU helps power Pennsylvania’s defense innovation ecosystem.
Learn more: cmu.edu/news/stories/archive…
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CMU is joining Carnegie Foundry and U.S. drone manufacturers to strengthen domestic production of autonomous systems. Backed by more than $50 million, the effort helps companies scale faster through advanced manufacturing and #AI.
Learn more: cmu.edu/news/stories/archive…