Through MFI, CMU will be connected to the innovation pipeline spurred by the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute (ARM) and the rest of the Manufacturing USA institutes – and build Pittsburgh into the country’s leading manufacturing hub.
The initiative will attract and collaborate with industry, as well as public, private, and academic partners, with a mission to accelerate adoption of new technology through interdisciplinary research on materials discovery, product design, robotics and automation, machine learning, policy, workforce training, and education.
Carnegie Mellon University's impact
Carnegie Mellon University is uniquely situated to help the Pittsburgh region fulfill its potential as a manufacturing hub of the future. The university's world leadership in advanced manufacturing technologies, artificial intelligence, integrated design and entrepreneurship, the science of learning, and technology policy, coupled with CMU’s unparalleled ability to work problems at disciplinary boundaries, and the generous capital and infrastructure investment of the Richard King Mellon Foundation, are enabling CMU to envision and accelerate the world into the physical and artificial future unlike any other.