This summer, our worst robot nightmare is slashing across the silver screen. Again.
It鈥檚 yet another film about thinking androids that go bad, this one inspired by science-fiction anthology I, Robot.
But the real story is somewhere else. It鈥檚 in Pittsburgh, where Carnegie Mellon will celebrate 25 years of science fact.
Twenty-five years after opening the doors to the , our experts continue to advance robots that sense, think and act for the good of humankind. Marvelous gadgets that go where man does not dare: below the earth, on toxic soil and into the heavens.
In the past quarter century, our robots have searched for meteorites in the frozen Antarctic, descended into the depths of volcanoes and learned to drive themselves on the nation鈥檚 highways and across deserts. They helped to clean up the meltdown of a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island. They assist surgeons in the operating rooms of some of the nation鈥檚 most prestigious hospitals. We鈥檙e even developing a robot capable of finding life in the desert.
Robots can identify your face and find you the best deal on the Internet. We鈥檙e developing social robots that interact with people and we will soon demonstrate teams composed of robots and humans playing soccer against teams of a similar makeup in the first real collaboration between robots and people.
And we鈥檙e struggling to develop a robot that can help keep the elderly out of nursing homes. We have succeeded at much, but we have much yet to do. They鈥檙e not cleaning our houses, yet!
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