Posts Tagged ‘Carnegie Mellon University’

Uber Powerful: The Car Service’s Brazen Plan To Become A Robotic Superpower

This past spring, two engineers huddled behind computer monitors as they fine-tuned a robotic ape. The 443-pound simian-inspired machine, called Chimp, would soon be competing in the Pentagon-funded DARPA Robotics Challenge. The competition to build disaster-response robots, which had started three years before, was nearing its final showdown. And Carnegie Mellon University’s Chimp was considered […]

Uber gutted Carnegie Mellon's top robotics lab to build self-driving cars

This January, as much of the world was getting over its post-holiday hangovers, people began disappearing from Carnegie Mellon University’s robotics center. At first it was only a few individuals, mostly software developers. Then it became an entire team, and eventually the group included the center’s director. They weren’t going far. […]

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