NYU Tandon School of Engineering recently announced the launch of its Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence, establishing a major new East Coast hub for robotics research and education.
Founders described it as another milestone of NYU’s historic $1 billion investment in engineering just three years ago, with the aim of expanding the University’s capacity for technological innovation by developing interdisciplinary teams, facilities, and programs that accelerate research across engineering, computing, data science, and health, a press release from NYU said.
Over 70 NYU faculty, Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers are now working in 10,000 square feet of shared experimental spaces, including the Center’s new 6,800-square-foot flagship facility on the ground floor of 370 Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn.
An additional 2,200-square-foot Tandon facility houses large-scale multirobot experiments, with a 1,000-square-foot manipulation research lab also available at the newly-minted NYU Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing and Data Science. More than 70 NYU faculty, Ph.D. students and post-doctoral researchers are now working in 10,000 square feet of shared experimental spaces.,
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“The shared, open environments enable daily collaboration among mechanical/electrical/civil engineers, computer scientists, and ethicists, supporting interdisciplinary discovery, the press release said.
The Center is meant to fill the gap between virtual domains and deployment in the physical world.
The Center’s faculty has together raised more than $30 million in research funding to date. Their current projects include designing and building robots that can navigate city streets autonomously and algorithms that enable robots to move more naturally by learning from human motion. Growing research areas include AI-driven robot design, physical human-robot interaction, and applications spanning climate science to space exploration.
The Center aims to create the first Master of Science in Robotics and Embodied Intelligence in the country and will create a doctoral track for students specializing in Embodied Intelligence.