{"id":225093,"date":"2026-06-22T17:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225093\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:22:25","slug":"pittsburgh-positions-itself-as-defense-tech-hub-at-cmu-robotics-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225093\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh positions itself as defense tech hub at CMU robotics forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A slew of stakeholders pitched Pittsburgh as a developmental defense tech hub to visiting crowds at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/27\/cmu-robotics-innovation-center.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s recently opened Robotics Innovation Center.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Robotics, AI and Autonomy Forum was largely the chance for the Army AI Integration Center, a longstanding partner of CMU, to showcase and discuss the increasing use of robotics and artificial intelligence by the military, and to identify critical needs. But when the day kicked off with opening remarks, a number of speakers touted the region\u2019s status as a defense tech hub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cThis kind of facility was built for a gathering like this, but of course today we\u2019re here united by a shared commitment to ensuring America\u2019s continued leadership in emerging technology for our national security,\u201d CMU President Farnham Jahanian said. \u201cI have no doubt that the rich and robust discussions and interactions that will take place over the next two days will help to define a path forward and it\u2019s important that these discussions will seek to bring insight and to inform careful stewardship and development of these technologies in keeping alive our national priorities.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/06\/17\/cmu-robotics-innovation-center-army-ai.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/06\/17\/cmu-robotics-innovation-center-army-ai.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A slew of stakeholders pitched Pittsburgh as a developmental defense tech hub to visiting crowds at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[97774,97775,7933,7820,97772,73,75,74,13683,97773,58748],"class_list":["post-225093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-ai-and-autonomy-forum","tag-army-ai-interation-center","tag-carnegie-mellon-university","tag-cmu","tag-developmental-defense-tech-hub","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-robotics","tag-robotics-forum","tag-robotics-innovation-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}