🔬 University#1 Pittsburgh, PA, USA· Est. 1979
Carnegie Mellon University — Robotics Institute
The world's largest and oldest dedicated robotics institute, founded in 1979. CMU RI covers every robotics subfield and has produced more robotics PhDs than any other institution on Earth.
field roboticsautonomous vehiclesmanipulationAIhuman-robot interaction
Notable achievements
Navlab self-driving car (1984), HERB home robot, ROS contributions, DARPA Urban Challenge winner, Spot-like quadruped research predecessors. Over 500 active researchers.
Notable work
NavlabHERBBoss (DARPA Urban Challenge)DRC-HUBO
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
HRI
Open access
6G Communication Networks Enabling Embodied Agents: Architecture and Prototype
Lipeng Dai, Luping Xiang, Kun Yang
2026
HRI
Open access
Robots That Know What to Ask: Recovering Misaligned Rewards through Targeted Explanations
Helena Merker, Nick Walker, Andreea Bobu
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
GesVLA: Gesture-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model Embedded Representations
Wenxuan Guo, Ziyuan Li, Meng Zhang +7 more
2026
LEARNING
Open access
Superhuman Safe and Agile Racing through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Ismail Geles, Leonard Bauersfeld, Markus Wulfmeier +1 more
2026
Patents
GRANTEDACTUATOR
Series elastic actuators for robots and robotic devices
Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
US9796082 · US · Oct 24, 2017
GRANTEDMANIPULATION
Supervised autonomous robotic system for complex surface inspection and processing
Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
US9796089 · US · Oct 24, 2017