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• Aerial Robot Collision Avoidance

  The Aerial Robot Collision Avoidance project develops sensor technologies and algorithms for achieving better autonomous flight despite the challenges of power and weight.

• Air-Ground Collaboration

  This project develops algorithms to exploit the complementary sensing capabilities provided by air and ground robot platforms.

• Assistive Technology

  TechBridgeWorld's Assistive Technology program develops educational and navigational tools for visually impaired and deaf communities.

• Automated Orbital Mapping

  The Automated Orbital Mapping project is developing machine vision techniques to extract features from hyperspectral imagery of Mars. Machine learning is applied to interpret and classify geology and create maps.

• Automation for Specialty Crops

  Comprehensive Automation for Specialty Crops (CASC) is a multi-institutional initiative led by Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute to comprehensively address the needs of specialty agriculture focusing on apples and horticultural stock.

• Robotic Astrobiology

  The Life in the Atacama project is developing techniques to search for life in extreme environments on Earth and beyond. This field, called robotic astrobiology, seeks evidence of how life may develop in the universe. The search begins on Earth.

• Braille Writing Tutor

  TechBridgeWorld's Automated Braille Writing Tutor (BWT) project seeks to improve braille literacy among visually impaired youth around the world.

• Cooperative Robotic Watercraft

  Small, autonomous watercraft are an ideal approach to a number of applications in flood mitigation and response, environmental sampling, and numerous other applications.

• Coordinated Assembly Teams

  We are developing human-robot interaction technologies to make autonomous workforces both efficient and reliable by applying techniques for variable autonomy.

• Coordinated Robotics for Material Handling

  We are working on a system of mobile robots that perform precise coordinated maneuvers for transporting assembly materials.

• Distributed SensorWebs

  SensorWebs are distributed networks of intercommunicating sensor modules. We are developing wireless technology for distributed sensing and actuation in horticultural environments.

• Dynamic Human-Robot Teams

  We are researching the means to organize and adapt teams of humans and robots to cooperatively accomplish tasks.

• Education e-Village

  TechBridgeWorld's Education e-Village program is an online community for technology education in underserved communities. The concept for E-Village began with an introductory robotics course co-taught at Ashesi University in Ghana.

• Hydroponic Automation

  We are developing robotic approaches towards hydroponic growing. Hydroponic growing can increase overall crop yield. This is especially important for minimizing disease and controlling the quality of specialty crops.

• iSTEP

  iSTEP is TechBridgeWorld's summer internship opportunity for Carnegie Mellon students to conduct technology research projects in underserved communities.

• Lunar Regolith Excavation and Transport

  We are developing techniques for excavation and materials transport on the moon and innovating new mechanisms and methods for lunar operations.

• Lunar Prospecting Rover

  Scarab is a rover concept for deploying a drill and instruments to explore craters of the lunar poles and to prospect for elements and compounds, like oxygen and water in the lunar soil.

• Google Lunar X Prize

  Carnegie Mellon Roboticists are currently developing a lunar rover to be part of the first commercial mission to the moon.

• NavPal

  NavPal is a smart phone navigation application to assist visually impaired and deafblind people to safely evacuate specific buildings in emergency situations.

• Reefbot

  ReefBot is a Pittsburgh-based team of individuals committed to developing and using underwater robotic technology for the purpose of ocean exploration, education, and coral reef conservation.

• Riverine Mapping

  This project is developing technology to map riverine environments from a low-flying rotorcraft.

• Robotic Traverse

  The Robotic Traverse project is incorporating perception and control to automate tractors used to traverse Antarctica.

• Sense and Avoid for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  The aim of the Sense and Avoid project is to develop and test a field deployable Sense and Avoid systems for both UAS and small aircraft that exceed the current regulatory conditions.

• Shipboard Navigation for Micro Air Vehicles

  The goal of this project is to develop an autonomous Micro Air Vehicle to conduct routine shipboard inspections for fire control and damage assessment.

• Subterranean Robotics

  To improve the accuracy and completeness of underground information, we are developing robotic exploration, mapping and servicing in underground spaces, such as abandoned mines, caves, and sewers.

• TechBridgeWorld

  TechBridgeWorld develops and field tests sustainable technology solutions to meet development needs around the world.

• TechCaFE

  TechBridgeWorld's TechCaFE program creates technology tools for customizable and fun education.

• Visual Yield Mapping