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Christopher Atkeson

Professor

Robotics Institute

  • Professor
    Robotics Institute
  • (412) 268-5544 (Mobile)
  • NSH A527, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • BROADCAST INTERVIEW
    Science Goes to the Movies! (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2019
    A look at Black Mirror’s “Metalhead” episode, and Baymax and Daniel H. Wilson’s “Robopocalypse” series, with Wilson himself and the Carnegie Mellon professor who taught him (almost) everything he knows, Chris Atkeson, Professor at the Robotics Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
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  • BROADCAST INTERVIEW
    Quartz (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2017
    Chris Atkeson, the creator of Big Hero 6's Baymax, wants to bring soft robots to the world.
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  • BROADCAST INTERVIEW
    CGTN America
    1 Jan 2015
    Chris Atkeson on the future of robots
  • AWARDS / RECOGNITION
    Finalist, Best Paper Award, ICRA
    1 Jan 2000
  • AWARDS / RECOGNITION
    Teaching Award from the MIT Graduate Student Council
    1 Jan 1990
  • AWARDS / RECOGNITION
    National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award
    1 Jan 1988
  • AWARDS / RECOGNITION
    W. M. Keck Foundation Assistant Professorship in Biomedical Engineering
    1 Jan 1988
  • AWARDS / RECOGNITION
    National Science Foundation Engineering Initiation Award
    1 Jan 1987