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)
Artificial Intelligence enhanced smart welding islands: Foundation models revolutionizing manufacturing
Xiwei Wu, Wei Wu, Qiqi Chen +6 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 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
Artificial pushing adaptive coordinated control for the human-exoskeleton-walker system
Xinhao Zhang, Chen Yang, Chaobin Zou +4 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
How technological progress in robotics, AI, and IT/ICT/IoT reshapes employment: A robust analysis for the United States
Amir Khakbaz, Behnam Malmir
Technological Forecasting and Social Change · 2026
Safety-Critical Adaptive Impedance Control via Nonsmooth Control Barrier Functions under State and Input Constraints
Faisal Lawan, Xiaoran Han, Joaquin Carrasco +2 more
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