SCS News 2022

November 2022

A human face in profile with the AI for K12 wordmark.

SCS Professor Authors Guides for Teaching AI to K-12 Students

By Aaron Aupperlee - Wednesday, November 30, 2022
A robotic arm on the left of the sceen grasps a yellow mustard bottle in a claw-like hand while a nearby computer monitor shows how the robot's performance compares to a simulation of the same task.

Research Highlight: Sim-to-Real Transfer for Tactile-Based Robot Grasping

By Kayla Papakie - Wednesday, November 30, 2022
An image of the brain shows areas highlighted in blue, green, yellow and red.

New Research Investigates How the Brain Processes Language

By Aaron Aupperlee - Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Portraits of Kangle Deng and Han Guo.

SCS Students Named Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellows

By Kayla Papakie - Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Three students in purple t-shirts sit in front of a computer monitor. One looks at the monitor while two others read papers in front of them.

CMU Programming Team Shines in ICPC World Finals

By Aaron Aupperlee - Thursday, November 17, 2022
Six members of the Girls of Steel team, dressed in black tshirts with a Rosie the Riveter theme, pose with a robot that is shaped like a large shopping cart and is filled with red wires.

From The LINK: Girls of Steel Go Global

By Kevin O'Connell - Thursday, November 17, 2022
A black four-legged robot that looks very dog-like clambers over a rock in the woods.

A Low-Cost Robot Ready for Any Obstacle

CMU, Berkeley Researchers Design Robust Legged Robot System

By Aaron Aupperlee - Wednesday, November 16, 2022
The Center for Transformational Play wordmark.

Carnegie Mellon University Launches Center for Transformational Play

By Aaron Aupperlee - Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Portrait of Ruby Redlich.

Studying Genetics and Sleep in a Dream Research Project

By Kirsten Heuring - Thursday, November 10, 2022
A woman in a white shirt and black blazer sits at a table, collaborating with a woman in jeans and a pink sweater who is standing at the table.

SCS Brings Back OurCS Conference

By Kayla Papakie - Monday, November 7, 2022
Collaged portraits of Isaac Grosof and Ziv Scully.

SCS Team Wins Prize for Best Student-Written Paper

By Kayla Papakie - Friday, November 4, 2022
A team of four students sit around a desk working on laptops with a monitor between them. A sign reading Simcoach Games hangs on the wall in the background.

CMU Helps Simcoach Games Train Next Generation of Change Innovators

By Susie Cribbs - Thursday, November 3, 2022
A series of four photos show a ball of blue dough highlighted with a red circle of light from the robot's sensors. The photos show the progression from this dough ball to circular, flattened dough.

Roll It Out

CMU Robotics Research Finds Flattening Dough Requires Precise Adjustments

By Stacey Federoff - Tuesday, November 1, 2022