Editing Robotics Institute (section)

{{Short description|Division of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University}}
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{{Infobox university 
|name           = Robotics Institute
|image          = Robotics Institute logo.svg
|image_size     = 150px
|established    = {{start date and age|1979}}
|type           = [[Private university|Private]] 
|director       = [[Matthew Johnson-Roberson]]
|city           = [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] 
|students       = 
|faculty        = 
|campus         = [[urban area|Urban]] 
|website        = http://www.ri.cmu.edu/
}}

The '''Robotics Institute (RI)''' is a division of the [[Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science|School of Computer Science]] at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[United States]].  A June 2014 article in ''Robotics Business Review'' magazine calls it "the world's best robotics research facility" and a "pacesetter in robotics research and education."<ref name="Robotics Business Review">{{cite web|last1=Edwards|first1=John|title=Carnegie Mellon: The World's Premier Robotics Institute?|url=http://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/article/carneige_mellon_the_worlds_premier_robotics_institute|website=roboticsbusinessreview.com|publisher=Robotics Business Review|access-date=10 September 2015|date=6 June 2014}}</ref>

The Robotics Institute focuses on bringing robotics into everyday activities. Its faculty members and graduate students examine a variety of fields, including space robotics, medical robotics, industrial systems, computer vision and artificial intelligence, and they develop a broad array of robotics systems and capabilities.<ref name="Robotics Business Review"/>

Established in 1979 by [[Raj Reddy]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ri.cmu.edu/ri_static_content.html?menu_id=247 |title=Robotics Institute: History of the Robotics Institute |access-date=2011-08-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627051612/http://www.ri.cmu.edu/ri_static_content.html?menu_id=247 |archive-date=2015-06-27 }}</ref> the RI was the first robotics department at any U.S. university.<ref name="aboutRI">[http://www.ri.cmu.edu/general/about.html Robotics Institute: About the Robotics Institute<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509065941/http://www.ri.cmu.edu/general/about.html |date=May 9, 2008 }}</ref>  In 1988, CMU became the first university in the world offering a Ph.D. in Robotics.

In 2012, the faculty, staff, students and postdocs numbered over 500,<ref name="aboutRI" /> and the RI annual budget exceeded $65M,<ref name="aboutRI"/> making the RI one of the largest robotics research organizations in the world.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/robotics-schools-2014-7?op=1|title=The 10 Best Universities For Robotics In The US|work=Business Insider|access-date=2017-05-18|language=en}}</ref>

The RI occupies facilities on the Carnegie Mellon main campus as well as in the [[Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh)|Lawrenceville]] and Hazelwood neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, totaling almost 200,000 sq. ft of indoor space and 40 acres of outdoor test facilities.