Robotics Institute
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The Robotics Institute (RI) is a division of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is considered to be one of the leading centers of robotics research in the world.
The RI was established in 1979, and for many years CMU was the only university in the world offering a Ph.D. in Robotics. In 2004, the total number of people in the RI (faculty, staff, students, postdocs) was 494, making the RI one of the largest (probably the largest) robotics research organizations in the world. Total sponsored project expenditures in FY04 were $40M. Professors at the institute often cite a statistic that the RI publishes one third as many papers at robotics conferences as the entire country of Japan.
The National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) was established in 1996 as the commercialization arm of the RI, and has been very successful at applying robotics technology to commercial and defense applications. The RI and NREC are also leaders in developing materials and curricula for robotics education in the secondary grades.
The Field Robotics Center (FRC) has developed a number of significant robots, including Sandstorm and H1ghlander, which finished second and third in the DARPA Grand Challenge.
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