Carnegie Mellon University, Siddhartha Srinivasa lab
Carnegie Mellon is a private research university in Pittsburgh whose Robotics Institute hosted Siddhartha Srinivasa's Personal Robotics Lab. The lab built HERB, a two-armed household butler robot, from 2006 and later moved to the University of Washington.
- Robot models in the atlas
- 11 humanoid
- First robot
- 2006One year so far
- Headquarters
- PittsburghUnited States
- Can I buy one?Not on sale yetPrototype, pilot or research robots only
- What is new?2016-05-24A decade into HERB, clutter is the next challenge
Robots
1 robot model shown in public in 2006. Newest first. Open one for its full profile.
What is inside
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What is new
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- HERB Debuts in Oreo "Cookie vs. Creme" Video Carnegie Mellon University · HERB
- Lessons from HERB 2.0 published UW Personal Robotics Lab · HERB
The company
What it says about itself and what the sources record.
- Founded
- 1900
- Headquarters
- Pittsburgh, United States
- Focus
- Household mobile manipulation and human-robot interaction research
- Funding
- Private university (endowment about 4.29 billion dollars, 2025); HERB's initial funding came from Intel and the NSF-backed Quality of Life Technology Center
- Partners
- Intel; Quality of Life Technology Center; Oreo 'Cookie vs. Creme' campaign (2013)
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