More than a fantasy: CMU advances plans for cutting-edge robotics center at Hazelwood Green

It’s truly the stuff of science fiction, from the drone cage to the wheel wash for robots.

Carnegie Mellon University presented plans Tuesday for its new Robotics Innovation Center at Hazelwood Green, the old mill site that for decades helped to feed America’s appetite for steel.

It soon could be fueling its imagination with a 215,500-square-foot complex that CMU sees as a way of “carrying on Pittsburgh’s tradition of making things” while supplementing its cutting-edge on-campus robotics research.

“It really is intended to be space where robotics research is done, especially robotics research that may not fit on campus,” CMU architect Bob Reppe said during a briefing before the Pittsburgh Planning Commission.

Click here to read the full article by Mark Belko at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.