Press & Media Coverage

Carnegie Mellon University: Undergraduate researcher Ben Gu shares his experience with the 1-DoF robot Mugatu during CMU's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF).

TechEBlog: Zippy is the smallest self-contained bipedal robot in the world - Also featured in IEEE Spectrum.

IEEE Spectrum: Professor Aaron Johnson gives a talk on generating locomotion strategies that address uncertainty in dynamics and contact conditions.

Carnegie Mellon University Engineering: Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are using robotics and AI to understand soil and plant quality.

Carnegie Mellon University Engineering: Robomechanics Lab alumna Natha Singhasaneh designs toys to teach kids about science and engineering at CrunchLabs

Carnegie Mellon University Engineering: Picotaur, the first legged robot of its size to run, turn, push loads, and climb miniature stairs - Also featured in IEEE Spectrum, Hackster.io

Carnegie Mellon University Engineering: Post-Doctoral Researcher Aja Carter and other roboticists discuss paleobionics in a podcast

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History celebrates the 125th birthday of "Dippy" by welcoming Post-Doctoral Researcher Aja Carter to discuss robo-paleontology

TechEBlog: First Look at LORIS: an innovative rock-climbing robot with microspine grippers - Also featured in New Atlas, Tomorrow's World Today, MSN Microsoft Start, and Interesting Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University: Carnegie Mellon holds groundbreaking ceremony for Robotics Innovation Center - Also featured in The Pittsburgh Business Journal and CBS News Pittsburgh

TechXplore: A new design that equips robots with proprioception and a tail

Carnegie Mellon University Engineering: Gwen’s Girls partnership fosters children’s interest in robomechanics

TechXplore: A bipedal robot that can walk using just one actuator - Also featured in Discover Magazine, The Arduino Blog, Carnegie Mellon University Engineering, Hackster.io, Interesting Engineering, New Atlas, IEEE Spectrum, Weekly Robotics, and ASME:

Popular Science: Watch robot dogs train on obstacle courses to avoid tripping - Also featured in Carnegie Mellon University Engineering, Interesting Engineering, and ASME

Reuters: Elon Musk faces skeptics as Tesla gets ready to unveil 'Optimus' robot - Also quoted in another Reuters article

Carnegie Mellon University Engineering: Dean's Early Career Fellows Announced

Carnegie Mellon University Engineering: Open-source software gives a leg up to robot research - Also featured in IEEE Spectrum Video Friday

IEEE Spectrum: A First Small Step Toward a Lego-Size Humanoid Robot

Carnegie Mellon University Robitics Institute: CMU Research Earns Top Honors at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

ASME DSCD Podcast Series: Guest Prof. Aaron Johnson- Podcast interview

IEEE Spectrum - Automation: The Cheetah's Fluffy Tail Points the Way for Robots With High-Speed Agility - Also featured in: TechCrunch, Interesting Engineering, and TechXplore

IEEE Spectrum - Automation: Supporting Black Scholars in Robotics - Article written with Prof. Henny Admoni and Prof. Carlotta Berry

Venture Beat: How the pandemic is influencing robotics research - Article

Carnegie Mellon University: Johnson received NSF CAREER Award - Press Release

IEEE Spectrum - Automation: How Roboticists (and Robots) Have Been Working from Home - Article and quote

PBS: How to Build an Engineer: Joe Norby - Television Appearance

Carnegie Mellon University: Making Tracks in the Desert - Press Release

Carnegie Mellon University: Pushing Robotics Uphill - Press Release

Future Tech Podcast: Designing Robots That Meet the Challenges of the Real World - Podcast interview

IEEE Spectrum - Automation: T-RHex Is a Hexapod Robot With Microspines on Its Feet - Also featured in: Hackaday, CNET, Digital Trends, and Tech Xplore.

Carnegie Mellon University: Johnson wins ARO Young Investigator Award - Press Release

CMU Engineering: CMU team in NASA Mars ice drilling competition - Article on student group advised by the Robomechanics Lab

Science 360: Robots that can go anywhere in the world - Video

Summer@CMU Newsletter: Summer Student Profile: Hardik Singh - Article and interview with undergraduate student Hardik Singh

ASME Mechanical Engineering Magazine: A leg up on robomechanics - Article and interview

Recode: Robots copy their coolest moves from animals - Article and interview

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: CMU and Tata Consultancy Services partner for the "4th Industrial Revolution" - Article on TCS groundbreaking that featured XRL delivering a brick to the ceremony and my student, Catherine Pavlov, representing the department. See also: CMU Press Release

CMU Mechanical Engineering: Robomechanics: Aaron Johnson's robotic zoo - Press release about the creation of the Robomechanics Lab

The Washington Post: Robots could eventually replace soldiers in warfare. Is that a good thing? - Article written with Vivek Wadhwa.

The article also appeard in: The Huffington Post, Singularity Hub, and others.

The article was covered and discussed in many venues including The Armstrong and Getty Show (syndicated radio talkshow), Future Left Podcast, Reddit, and more.

Please direct all media inquiries to Lisa Kulick in the Mechanical Engineering Department: lkulick@andrew.cmu.edu