On January 10, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg visited the ARM Institute and Carnegie Mellon University’s shared facility in Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood. The visit showcased not only robotics transportation work happening in the building, but also the unique types of collaboration that the shared facility enables across industry, government, and academia. While the ARM Institute was not the focus of the visit, Ira Moskowitz, ARM Institute CEO, was an honored guest during the event.
Secretary Buttigieg’s visit to the shared robotics institute facility illustrates the continuing visibility and attention that the ARM Institute and our fellow partners at our Pittsburgh facility, which includes ARM Members Carnegie Mellon University’s Manufacturing Futures Institute and Catalyst Connection, receive for solving difficult problems. Secretary Buttigieg was joined by Robert Hampshire, principal deputy assistant secretary and chief science officer for research and technology, Ben Levine, deputy assistant secretary for research and technology and Stan Caldwell, director of the DOT’s Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) grants program.
Learn more about the visit in Carnegie Mellon University’s write-up of the event here.
ABOUT THE ARM INSTITUTE
The ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) Institute is a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) funded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Agreement Number W911NF-17-3-0004 and is part of the Manufacturing USA® network. The ARM Institute leverages a unique, robust, and diverse ecosystem of over 400 consortium members and partners across industry, academia, and government to make robotics, autonomy, and artificial intelligence more accessible to U.S. manufacturers large and small, train and empower the manufacturing workforce, strengthen our economy and global competitiveness, and elevate national security and resilience. Based in Pittsburgh, PA since 2017, with a regional office in St. Petersburg, FL, the ARM Institute is leading the way to a future where people and robots work together to respond to our nation’s greatest challenges and to produce the world’s most desired products. For more information, visit www.arminstitute.org and follow the ARM Institute on LinkedIn and X(Twitter).