Carnegie Mellon University is opening its new Robotics Innovation Center today at Hazelwood Green.
The event will include live robotics demonstrations.
This week, CMU announced the first tenant at the $100 million facility.
California-based FieldAI has developed artificial intelligence that makes machines autonomous.
On The Big K Morning Show, George Kantor, co-founder of Bloomfield Robotics and leader of CMU’s new undergraduate robotics program, highlights the 150,000-square-foot facility.
“It’s got some special facilities like a wet lab and a water tank for testing underwater robots, it’s got an outdoor running room, so about two acres of kind of open, grassy area where we can take robots outside, run them around,” said Kantor.
He adds its as large as an indoor football field inside.
Inside the center, FieldAI is opening a 2,500-square-foot lab, where it will develop fully autonomous machines while collaborating with students and faculty.
Kantor says that AI in robotics is now being commercialized, helping farmers with autonomous machines and robotic manipulation—though fully replacing humans is still a ways off.
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