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Pittsburgh’s journey to roboburgh: How the city earned its reputation for AI and robotics

By Julia Mericle – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times
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By Julia Mericle – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

PITTSBURGH — When Kenny Chen tells Pittsburgh’s artificial intelligence and robotics story to audiences outside the city, he emphasizes that the expertise and successes that earned the city its Roboburgh title did not happen overnight.

It happened “during the time that AI and robotics were not really all that sexy,” said Chen, executive director of the Partnership to Advance Responsible Technology.

It happened when Pittsburgh “embraced the vision for robotics long, long, long before it was actualized or manifested in the functional, tangible working and thinking machines that we know today,” added Red Whittaker, Carnegie Mellon University professor and director of the Field Robotics Center.

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