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.
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
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Beyond rigid automation: A review of vision-language-action models for adaptive human–robot disassembly
Baki Ul Islam, Joao Paulo Jacomini Prioli, Jose Carlos Hernandez Azucena
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2027
Artificial Intelligence enhanced smart welding islands: Foundation models revolutionizing manufacturing
Xiwei Wu, Wei Wu, Qiqi Chen +6 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
A digital twin-empowered resilient path-following approach for non-holonomic autonomous vehicles under DoS attacks
Hunain Kaisar, Muhammad Rehan, Ijaz Ahmed +1 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Copilot: A framework for integrating LLM and BMI to enhance human–robot interaction
Siyu Liu, Mengzhen Liu, Zhiyuan Ming +6 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Robotics and AI for prefabrication of steel building components: Systematic review and future roadmap
Misha Afaq, Souravik Dutta, Arash Hosseini Gourabpasi +2 more
Automation in Construction · 2026
Patents
Series elastic actuators for robots and robotic devices
Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
US9796082 · US · Oct 24, 2017
Supervised autonomous robotic system for complex surface inspection and processing
Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
US9796089 · US · Oct 24, 2017
A Supervised Autonomous Robotic System for Complex Surface Inspection and Processing
Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
US20160016312A1 · US · Jan 21, 2016