There are two major milestones that truly matter for projects such as CIR. One is when the website, with content, goes live. We are working hard on making that a reality, and making it as useful as possible to both new and experienced robotics enthusiasts. The second milestone passes when we can point to a real, physical location and say that the center lives there! We are very close to being able to say that now. The Collaborative Innovation Center on Carnegie Mellon’s campus has a beautiful fourth floor, and if all goes well in a matter of weeks we will be peering out windows on that floor, creating a space where the robot testing grounds will live as well as the engineers and designers on our team who are making the CIR website a reality. Stay tuned for pictures of the physical CIR once we have moved in and made the space comfortable.
November 11th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Imagine a group of researchers with a prototypical mechanism, device or system which performs the ideal and ultimate task of mimicking biological cognition. Supposing instead some group of researchers with only a template which, in time, will lead to this most ultimate of triumphs of human ingenuity. Does anyone believe these researchers will publicize a beta system before these researchers perfect the product, and then announce to the world the perfected product? We live in a capitalistic society fella’s :•)