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Part 1 of 3. Robots, videogames, Iron Man and R2-D2… Classic Game Room visits Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center where students earn a masters degree in entertainment technology which can help them land jobs in the video game industry, robotics and world domination. Come visit the CMU ETC with CGR and marvel at their collection of video game, movie and robotics paraphernalia. Mentors like C-3PO, R2-D2, Gort and Iron Man await student who want to spend two years and countless hours learning to defy ordinary and create games in a group environment. Game design isn’t easy but with motivation like this who wouldn’t want to do it? Even their bathroom has a Super Mario Bros. theme. See Quasi the robot and robot from Terminator 2 as well as the Hoffbrauhaus across the river.

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Assistant Professor Calin Belta (Mechanical Engineering) and his research team discuss autonomous robotics, control theory and hybrid systems.

Belta’s research involves the study of monitoring and controlling robotics “swarms.” The small automated robots, or “swarm,” have applications in mapping, and military and fire search-and-rescue missions. Recent funding from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Air Force Young Investigators Program will allow Belta and his team to develop architectures to control and coordinate these missions.

For more information on research at the Boston University College of Enginering, please visit www.bu.edu/eng/research.

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