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Robotics Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (103 words) |
 | The Robotics Institute (RI) is a research center of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
 | Professors at the institute often cite a statistic that the RI publishes one third as many papers at robotics conferences as the country of Japan. |
 | This article on a northeastern U.S. institution of higher education is a stub. |
| Robotics Institute turns 25 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (1220 words) |
 | The Robotics Institute was established in 1979 when now-retired Westinghouse Electric Co. senior executive Thomas J. Murrin returned from Japan and realized that U.S. manufacturers had a lot of catching up to do. |
 | But programming a robot to sense and interpret the world as a human would and act appropriately is an enormous design challenge, said CMU robotics professor Reid Simmons, an expert in artificial intelligence and the development of social robots. |
 | Robotics experts from around the world will gather at a symposium to explore the future of robotics and discuss the challenges of creating a positive, fruitful coexistence between robots and humans. |