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Carnegie Mellon Robots Featured In Two Spots During The Upcoming NCAA Championships

Several Carnegie Mellon University robots were featured in two 30-second image spots about the institution that aired during the NCAA college basketball championships in March. The robots include:

Pearl, a second-generation robotic assistant for the elderly

Nomad, which trekked 125 miles across the Atacama Desert in 1998 and discovered meteorites in Antarctica last winter

Xavier, an autonomous, talking navigation robot, now working in the DIRA construction project with two robotic colleagues

"Minnow" mid-sized soccer playing robots that work in teams. The ads, which was created by in-house experts, are part of an agreement CBS-TV reached with the university and Robotics Institute Director Takeo Kanade, who helped the network to develop a technology called Eye Vision, which was used to broadcast play backs in the Super Bowl. The work is an abridged version of "Virtualized Reality"TM, a technology that Kanade and his students have been developing for the past six years.

More information on "Virtualized Reality" can be found at www.cs.cmu.edu/virtualized-reality/main.html.