The Story
John Bares, a veteran of Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center, founded Carnegie Robotics in 2010 to commercialize advanced sensing and perception technology for robots operating in challenging real-world environments.
The company builds stereo camera systems, LiDAR integration platforms, and complete perception modules used by robots in defense, mining, agriculture, and logistics. Their technology helps machines see, map, and navigate spaces that are too dangerous or complex for humans.
Carnegie Robotics operates out of Lawrenceville, close to the Carnegie Mellon campus that produced much of the foundational research behind their products. The company represents the bridge between academic robotics research and commercial application.
What Makes It Pittsburgh
Carnegie Robotics is a direct product of Pittsburgh's robotics ecosystem, the deepest concentration of robotics talent in the world. The company's proximity to CMU, NREC, and dozens of other robotics firms creates a network effect that would be impossible to replicate elsewhere.
Bares's career, from academic research to commercial robotics, is a path that many Pittsburgh roboticists have followed, and Carnegie Robotics is one of the most successful examples of that transition.