Carnegie Mellon University Selects OptiTrack as Motion Capture Technology Partner for New Robotics Innovation Center
Publish Date: 2026-07-06 12:00:00
Source Domain: www.businesswire.com
CORVALLIS, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–OptiTrack, the world’s largest motion capture provider and a pioneer in precision 3D tracking technology for nearly three decades, today announced a multi-year technology partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to equip two research facilities at the university’s newly opened Robotics Innovation Center (RIC) with advanced motion capture systems. OptiTrack deployed a combined 92 high-performance cameras across the RIC’s indoor Motion Capture Studio and outdoor Drone Cage.
OptiTrack deployed a combined 92 high-performance cameras across two research facilities at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Innovation Center. Together, the systems will power a broad range of robotics and physical AI research.
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The partnership pairs two institutions at the top of their respective fields. Carnegie Mellon is internationally renowned for its fundamental and applied research in robotics, automation and artificial intelligence. Its Robotics Institute, founded in 1979 as the world’s first university robotics department, is consistently ranked among the world’s leading robotics programs. OptiTrack, founded in 1996, has spent nearly 30 years engineering the motion capture systems trusted by thousands of research institutions worldwide.
The CMU Robotics Innovation Center
The RIC celebrated its grand opening on February 27, 2026, with a ceremony that demonstrated CMU’s leadership in robotics, physical AI and cutting-edge technology, and the university’s role in bringing these technologies from the lab to real-world deployment. The 150,000-square-foot facility at Hazelwood Green – a revitalized development on the former site of Pittsburgh’s historic Jones & Laughlin Steel Mill – houses a 50,000-square-foot robotics testing floor, aquatic research lab, motion capture studio, and a 6,000-square-foot outdoor drone cage.
The Systems
The indoor Motion Capture Studio features 28 PrimeX41 cameras and 4 Prime Color…
