The Center for Innovative Robotics organizes the wit and passion about robotics into one vital community where a diverse group of people can share ideas and invent new ones. Our understanding of our members and their needs appears below. Are we missing an opportunity to serve you? Have we overlooked your need? Tell us.
Students
Invent with others, show off your ideas, and get hints and answers that will help you design and build.
Teachers
See the current hot topics in the community that may influence your curriculum and inspire students.
Enthusiasts
You do it because you can...and because it's cool.
Perhaps you're not sure why you built a robot that combines a garden hose, a pan-tilt head and an electric valve. But you did, and other robotics enthusiasts will be interested. They can find your ideas here.
Entrepreneurs
You care about how robots improve people's lives.
Your small company is passionate about developing novel applications for robotics ideas, prototyping them quickly, and building value while solving real problems.
Corporations
Due diligence is a required step in your development process.
Assuring that new products and services will succeed makes it possible for innovations to get to market quickly and benefit many people. You need to justify and sustain your corporation's selection of robotics technologies.
Researchers
Insight into the community's current thinking shapes your research platform.
You need to disseminate your ideas in order to advance the state of the art and spark academic dialogue. What research questions have been asked? What robot solutions help when we formulate answers?
Established with a founding gift from the Microsoft Robotics Group.