Robotics Institute

The Robotics Institute (RI) is a division of the <a href="/facts/Carnegie_Mellon_School_of_Computer_Science/e2XNDQeL">School of Computer Science</a> at <a href="/facts/Carnegie_Mellon_University/XKd7L2KA">Carnegie Mellon University</a> in <a href="/facts/Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania/42yPHyS0">Pittsburgh</a>, <a href="/facts/Pennsylvania/HGqC5bBm">Pennsylvania</a>, <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a>. A June 2014 article in Robotics Business Review magazine calls it "the world's best robotics research facility" and a "pacesetter in robotics research and education."
The Robotics Institute focuses on bringing robotics into everyday activities. Its faculty members and graduate students examine a variety of fields, including space robotics, medical robotics, industrial systems, computer vision and artificial intelligence, and they develop a broad array of robotics systems and capabilities.
Established in 1979 by <a href="/facts/Raj_Reddy/1P1PW5rw">Raj Reddy</a>, the RI was the first robotics department at any U.S. university. In 1988, CMU became the first university in the world offering a Ph.D. in Robotics.
In 2012, the faculty, staff, students and postdocs numbered over 500, and the RI annual budget exceeded $65M, making the RI one of the largest robotics research organizations in the world.
The RI occupies facilities on the Carnegie Mellon main campus as well as in the <a href="/facts/Lawrenceville_(Pittsburgh)/tWfoVDW5">Lawrenceville</a> and Hazelwood neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, totaling almost 200,000 sq. ft of indoor space and 40 acres of outdoor test facilities.

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Robotics Institute