Power tools: Robotics research at Carnegie Mellon aims to revolutionize everyday tasks

At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, the world’s foremost tech conference, farming machinery giant Kubota introduced Flash, a vehicle-mounted camera that creates ultra-detailed images to help farmers care for their crops.

It was an idea born in a Carnegie Mellon University robotics lab and another example of the revolutionary technology being developed in any one of the labs scattered across at least six buildings on the school’s Oakland campus.