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Discuss “Founder”

Black tie events and robotics are not usually associated, but for its 25th anniversary, Carnegie Mellon?s Robotics Institute recounted its birth in a panel discussion last week.

The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon is responsible for such projects as Dante, a six-legged volcano-explorer; the development of teams of soccer-playing robot dogs; and, more recently, Red Team Racing?s attempt to win the DARPA Grand Challenge by autonomously navigating across desert terrain.

The Institute?s founders were at Carnegie Music Hall last Wednesday to discuss their younger days and the dreams they had of changing the face of the world through the then-new interdisciplinary field of robotics.

In recalling their work in 1979, the founders said the greatest...

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