The CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform, better known as CHIMP, will make a rare appearance outside of the National Robotics Engineering Center at Thursday's Project Olympus Show & Tell.

The event will be from 4:30 to 6 p.m., Thursday, in McConomy Auditorium, and is supported by K&L Gates. A networking reception will follow.

The semi-humanoid CHIMP was designed and built by NREC for last year's DARPA Robotics Challenge, where it placed third in an international field of disaster response robots. CHIMP and the NREC team were featured on the "Rise of the Robots" episode of PBS's NOVA, and CHIMP is one of the robots highlighted in National Geographic's large-format film, "Robots," now playing at the Carnegie Science Center and other science centers across the country. Mike Vande Weghe, lead robotics engineer, will talk about CHIMP's capabilities.

Project Olympus Show & Tells are popular venues for providing a window into developments on campus, and for connecting students and faculty with the wider business and entrepreneurial community.

Alison Barth, interim director of CMU's BrainHub, will discuss her research in her talk, "How Does Experience Shape the Brain?"

Raffi Krikorian, engineering lead at Uber's Advanced Technologies Center, will share his views on how Pittsburgh compares to Silicon Valley.

Six student start-ups will make presentations, as will the Carnegie Mellon team in the SpaceX Hyperloop competition. More information is available on the Project Olympus website.

The event is free, but advance registration is encouraged.