But a team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is exploring how to make robots more engaging over the long term.
Modern cars are "incomparably cleaner" than older ones, said Neil Donahue, a professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Thanks to a research project at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh called Livehoods, the answers are about to become more clear.
Tomorrow, the President will speak at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the importance of American manufacturing to grow the economy and create new jobs.
But several standards initiatives are afoot, says Brad Myers, who is in charge of the Pebbles project, an effort at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to streamline the connectivity of home appliances.
"Carbon dioxide is the one thing that we've done nothing about so far, from really any of our economy aside by from increasing efficiency, and its the one thing that will substantially change the climate on time scales of 100 years or so, " said David Keith, an engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
The prototype uses an open-source speech-recognition program called Pocket Sphinx, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, but Dr Kristensson reckons it would be easy to apply the same approach to commercially available programs like Nuance's Dragon.
The question of why severely depressed patients suffer from infections more often than the average person attracted the attention of Gregory Miller, a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University, also in Pittsburgh.
While Pittsburgh produces plenty of skilled graduates--some of whom have traveled from as far as India and China to attend the city's world-class colleges, including Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh--the job market, which today primarily consists of health care and technology positions, simply isn't big enough to provide work for all qualified candidates.
The Robot Hall of Fame induction is sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University, the Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Science Center, the Pittsburgh Technology Council and RoboBusiness.
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The vehicle illustrates the reason President Obama is heading to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University to kick-off the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a national collaboration between the government, industries, and universities to invest in cutting-edge technologies.
The business schools of Columbia, in New York, the University of Chicago, the London School of Economics, Stanford in California and Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, for example, have teamed up behind Cardean University, an early effort at an online institution for tertiary education.
Bryan Routledge, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh, cautioned that the Beige Book contains anecdotal information about business trends, not hard numbers.
Warhol (born Andrew Warhola in 1928) grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated from what is now Carnegie Mellon University.
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The Pittsburgh-based company was spun out of Carnegie Mellon University and its Robotics Institute.
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