CMU Drama Professors and Alumni Encourage High School Students To Find Their Voice
A group of high school theatre students discovered the power of self-expression through the performing arts during a day-long master class with Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama faculty.
People Could Get Help With Tasks by Talking With Robots
A caregiving robot that responds to spoken instructions while performing physical tasks may make robots easier to use and understand.
Teaching a Robot To Hang a T-shirt Starts With Data
For a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship project, Carnegie Mellon University sophomore Jasmine Li worked with robotic arms in the Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction Lab to analyze the robot's behaviors in both simulations and real-world tasks in order to study how robots fail when imitating complex human activities, such as hanging shirts.
Junior Physics Major Helps Rubin Observatory Find Elusive Stars
Through Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, junior physics major Joao Passos is studying brown dwarfs — objects bigger than planets but smaller than stars — to learn how stars and solar systems form.