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Carnegie Mellon University

cmu.edu

Carnegie Mellon University is home to the Robotics Institute, founded in 1979 as one of the world's first and largest robotics research departments.

Track Carnegie Mellon University
Founded
1900
HQ
Pittsburgh, PA
Status
Research institution

Overview

Carnegie Mellon University is home to the Robotics Institute, founded in 1979 as one of the world's first and largest robotics research departments. CMU's robotics programs span autonomous vehicles (winner of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge), humanoid robotics, medical robotics, and space robotics. Notable spinoffs include Aurora Innovation and Nuro.

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Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Company type

University

Headquarters

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Founded

1900

Robotics Institute scope

Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute conducts robotics research and education across areas including autonomous systems, perception, manipulation, and human-robot interaction

Research and education mission

The Robotics Institute describes its mission as advancing robotics through research and educating the next generation of robotics practitioners and researchers

FOMO-Dex teleoperation (research-stated, Oct 2026)

Amazon FAR and Carnegie Mellon researchers use force feedback to adjust only the contact-relevant parts of a teleop or policy command, leaving the rest unchanged.

FOMO-Dex results (research-stated, Oct 2026)

Cut excess contact force vs stiff control on four tasks; teleop screwdriving rose from 4.2 to 34.7 turns per episode, and policies trained on its demos did better. Preprint.

Data & sources

Research

1

Web sources

4

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Partnerships

Every company Carnegie Mellon University has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

1 total1 operating

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Amazon1× joint12 total
  2. 2Bezos Expeditions1× joint2 total
  3. 3Coatue1× joint1 total
  4. 4Lightspeed Venture Partners1× joint1 total
  5. 5Sequoia Capital1× joint1 total
  6. 6Skild AI1× joint3 total

Most recent

  1. Skild AI Series A (2024)2024-07-09
    with Skild AIoperating

Relationships

SSkild AICo-developerAAmazonInvestorCCoatueInvestorLLightspeed Venture PartnersInvestorSSequoia CapitalInvestorBBezos ExpeditionsInvestorSSoftBankInvestor

Current leadership (2)

Former / Previously (1)

Safety record

No incidents on record for Carnegie Mellon University.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Recent coverage

Carnegie Mellon University in third-party press

Qatar’s Aligator Secures Backing From QDB and Next Ventures to Scale Agentic AI for PR

Oct 2, 2026

Ken Griffin donating $3B to Carnegie Mellon

Sep 30, 2026

Ken Griffin Gives Carnegie Mellon $3 Billion For Pittsburgh Expansion And New Miami Campus

Sep 30, 2026

Mentioned on (57+)

Registry pages whose text names Carnegie Mellon University.

Robots and products (2)

Cubelets, CMU Research Robot

AI systems (2)

Octo, TrackEverything

About 9 more pages name Carnegie Mellon University and were not checked here.