The ARM Institute played a central role in Washington Post Columnist David Ignatius’s recent visit to Carnegie Mellon University, which included a stop at the ARM Institute’s shared Pittsburgh facility. Ignatius began his career working as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Pittsburgh, covering the United Steelworkers Union and the collapse of the steel industry in the mid-1970s. He saw a very different version of the city during this most recent visit.
“It turned out Pittsburgh had these incredible resources — with CMU and UPMC at the top of the list — that were incredible technology and job generators,” Ignatius said. “People in this part of the country — and really this is true about America as a whole — were resourceful enough to make new dynamic industries.”
ARM Member Carnegie Mellon University led the visit, which included Ignatius speaking as part of the university’s President’s Lecture Series for influential thought leaders and the Deeper Conversations Series.
His time in Pittsburgh also featured a visit to the ARM Institute’s shared facility in Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood. There, Ignatius toured the ARM Institute’s Robotics Manufacturing Hub and learned how our robotics institute is helping manufacturers in the Pittsburgh region prototype and adopt robotics. He was able to interact with real robotics solutions that the ARM Institute is working on for manufacturers in the region. The Robotics Manufacturing Hub program perfectly epitomizes the region’s transition from the dull, dirty, and dangerous industry of the past to the manufacturing industry of today and of the future where humans work in collaboration with advanced technologies, like robotics and AI, to build a stronger and more resilient manufacturing ecosystem.
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