Carnegie Mellon has a full-spectrum research and development ecosystem. Most research at CMU is basic, open research performed on our campus. CMU also performs restricted research at our world-renowned National Robotics Engineering Center and classified research at our Software Engineering Institute. At CMU, we have brilliant researchers with state-of-the-art facilities to create technologies ...
Cruise controlled. In 1979, Carnegie Mellon established the nation's first Robotics Institute. Since then, professor and alumnus William "Red" Whittaker has been a robotics pioneer, founding the discipline of Field Robotics, developing unmanned vehicles to clean up the Three Mile Island nuclear accident site, and leading the Tartan Racing Team to victory in the $2 million Urban Challenge ...