National Robotics Engineering Center

National Robotics Engineering Center

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania robotics engineering center at Carnegie Mellon University, operating 30+ years; has delivered 350+ custom autonomous-system projects.

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The National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) is a robotics engineering division of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It has operated for more than 30 years, applying university research to fielded robotic systems for government and industry clients.

NREC designs, builds, and deploys custom robotic systems for agriculture, defense, mining, energy, manufacturing, and supply chain and logistics, covering the full lifecycle from concept development through commercialization and field deployment. Its engineering teams combine autonomous navigation, perception, and machine learning software with mechanical and systems engineering to build robots suited to each sector's operating conditions. The center has delivered more than 350 projects representing more than 700 million dollars in funded development.

NREC employs more than 150 robotics engineers and scientists at its facility on Pittsburgh's Robotics Row. Its affiliated Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy provides K-12 robotics curricula, educator training, and certification programs that reached approximately 1.2 million learners in the 2023-24 school year.

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Contact National Robotics Engineering Center

WEBSITE

https://nrec.ri.cmu.edu

PHONE

+1 412 681 6900

HEADQUARTERS

10 40th Street
Pittsburgh , PA  15201

United States

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