Carnegie Mellon spin-off re²  Inc., a Lawrenceville company that specializes in intelligent modular manipulation systems, will host the second meeting of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Robotics Cluster, a forum for academic and entrepreneurial roboticists, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 16.

Jorgen Pedersen, president and CEO of re² will be the featured speaker. David Ruppersberger, president and CEO of the Technology Collaborative, also will report on SBIR solicitations for robotics technology.

RSVPs to Patti Rote, prote@andrew.cmu.edu, are due Friday, Nov. 12.

The Robotics Cluster is an ongoing effort to bring together robotics researchers at Carnegie Mellon with local robotics entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and foundation representatives. It is sponsored by the Technology Collaborative and Carnegie Mellon.