Meet the robots hiding in CMU's basement

On this episode of Yinzer Backstage Pass, I paid a visit to the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Oakland. We followed faculty member Matt Travers down a set of stairs into the basement of the building. It was a cavernous space -- lots of piled boxes and miscellaneous storage -- but that turns out to be the perfect space to train the robots that he has been developing. We turned the corner and entered the "MattLab," which was buzzing with activity. More than a dozen grad students were typing on desktops, tinkering with remote controls and referencing huge monitors displaying incomprehensible charts and data.