CMU Robotics Institute

As the inaugural Bachelor of Science in Robotics graduate, Beverly (Bev) Da Costa not only moved through a brand-new curriculum but also helped define it #TartanProud #CMUgrad 🎓 🎉 Hear from Bev in a Q+A where she reflects on her BSR experience: ri.cmu.edu/work-hard-and-…

Congratulations, Parv! #CMUgrad #CMUrobotics 2026 grads: tag us in your graduation posts! We want to celebrate with you! #TartanProud

Congrats to @LeCARLab's 2026 #CMUGrad!

Excited Carnegie Mellon students had the opportunity to meet with Jensen Huang, @nvidia Founder and CEO. Jensen engaged firsthand with the cutting-edge research being conducted by CMU students. There was a snake robot, a robotic arm — even a robobuggy.

Congratulations to our Founder and CEO Jensen Huang on receiving an honorary Doctor of Science and Technology degree from @CarnegieMellon, as well as the CMU Class of 2026 graduates. 🎓

This morning, Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of @NVIDIA, met with Carnegie Mellon students ahead of Commencement. The visit created an opportunity for students to connect and share their work. Watch his 2026 remarks: cmu.edu/commencement/

Time to celebrate the Class of 2026! 🎓❤️ Grads, families and friends: Share your photos from Carnegie Mellon commencement with the #CMUGrad hashtag!

World2Rules learns patterns of risky aircraft behavior from real airport operations & incident data, then explains warnings in terms humans can easily understand ✈️ 🧑‍✈️ It's designed to work alongside existing prediction systems to enhance safety! ri.cmu.edu/?p=151221&prev…

Leslie Kaelbling, Panasonic Professor of Computer Science & Engineering @MIT, gave the last seminar of the semester! You can find her talk, "The Role of Rationality in Modern Robotics", on our YT channel along with a playlist of all other seminars ⬇️ bit.ly/4wbW9TU

May the fourth be with you. #StarWarsDay

Register for the next CMU Vision-Language-Navigation challenge, which will conclude with a workshop at #IROS2026! Teams will develop systems that allow robots to interpret natural-language instructions and navigate unfamiliar environments. Learn more ⬇️ ri.cmu.edu/next-phase-of-…

Carnegie Mellon robots debuted their skills on the #NFLDraft stage! 🤖 'Simon' from CMU's Robomechanics Lab and 'Maggie' from CMU spinout HEBI Robotics were drafted to showcase Pittsburgh's innovation in #robotics.

Before AI can generate professional videos, it needs to see like a professional. We spent a year with 100+ content creators teaching AI to describe video like a filmmaker would. Introducing CHAI: Critique-based Human-AI Oversight for Building a Precise Video Language [CVPR'26 Highlight, Top 3%]. Try prompting a video generator for a dolly zoom, dutch angle, point of view, or camera roll. Most fall back to the same bland defaults: a push-in, a level shot, a third-person view. Why? These techniques require a language of cinema that current models rarely speak. We built that language: 1️⃣ Precise specification: 5-aspect structured captions co-designed with professional cinematographers covering subject, scene, motion, spatial, and camera dynamics 2️⃣ Scalable oversight: LLMs draft captions, humans critique what's wrong and how to fix it 3️⃣ Post-training recipes: Qwen3-VL-8B surpasses Gemini-3.1 and GPT-5 4️⃣ Video generation: fine-tuned Wan follows 400-word cinematic prompts with precise control Here's how each works 🧵 Work led by CMU and Harvard with @chancharikm, @du_yilun, and @RamananDeva. 📄 Paper: huggingface.co/papers/2604.21… 🌐 Site: linzhiqiu.github.io/papers/chai/

CMU researchers, with @fzeyneptemel as co-lead, aim to develop a swallowable smart pill that reduces stress hormones by stimulating nerves, all without surgery or drugs! They recently received funding through @DARPA to support its CoasterChase program. bit.ly/4u0BDDG

CMU researchers created LiveSplats to allow fans to follow sports events from any angle, despite being miles from the arena. 🏀 ⚽ LiveSplats combines virtual reality technology and advanced AI-powered rendering to make this possible. Learn more! 👇 ri.cmu.edu/moving-beyond-…

Hear from Raj Reddy, Moza Bint Nasser University Professor, who recently gave a keynote lecture for National Robotics Week. 🤖 👀 You can find his talk, "The Future of AI", on the RI YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=ydnOSM…

@RamananDeva, @ChangliuL, @junyanz89, Katia Sycara, and Raj Reddy 🎉 #TartanProud

Congrats to the RI faculty who earned a top seed grant in the @LaudeInstitute Moonshot Competition! 👏 The team’s project, ARISTOS, will develop an AI-powered virtual craft master capable of guiding users through complex physical tasks in real time. cmu.edu/news/stories/a…

With Sim2Reason, AI moves closer to how science itself progresses: not by memorizing answers, but by discovering the laws that generate them. 🚀🧠 Read more about the team’s work: ri.cmu.edu/virtual-worlds…

SCS and @Cornell developed a new assistive feeding algorithm, Wearable Approach for Feeding With Learned Bite Timing (WAFFLE), that can be integrated with robotic feeding devices to predict when someone is ready for their next bite! ri.cmu.edu/predicting-the…