Carnegie Mellon | Todd Neff

The Carnegie Mellon University Field Robotics Center, part of the Robotics Institute, has been at the forefront of autonomous robotics since its founder, Red Whittaker, became a faculty member in 1979. These photos are from my visit in October 2017.

Red Whittaker and Cave Crawler at the CMU Field Robotics Center
The Carnegie Mellon Field Robotics Center's Groundhog robot
John Kozar, left, and Chuck Whittaker lift the ERIM lidar to a table, no easy task.
Chuck Whittaker with the ERIM lidar in the Carnegie Mellon Field Robotics Center
The back of the ERIM lidar
Chuck Whittaker points to the window of a Riegl lidar used in the DARPA Grand Challenges.
The Perceptron lidar in the CMU Field Robotics Center
The Perceptron lidar, up close
High on the walls, images of Navlab 2, Terregator, and a Three Mile Island bot.
Red Whittaker, at left, with the enormous Ambler robot
The Carnegie Mellon "Tartan Racing" team's trophy for winning the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge
The Pipe Dream robot at the Carnegie Mellon Field Robotics Center
Pipe Dream, up close
Pipe Dream in action during "cold" testing (Courtesy Carnegie Mellon University)
CMU Field Robotics Center postdoc Teruko Yata's sonic ring
David Kohanbash, a Carnegie Mellon Field Robotics Center engineer, with his bots
David Kohanbash in the CMU Field Robotics Center high bay in Newell-Simon Hall
A NASA-sponsored robot high in the high bay
The Field Robotics Center's old high bay from above