Uber poached people from Carnegie Mellon robotics lab to build self-driving cars

Re:Uber poached people from Carnegie Mellon robotics lab to ... by mturmon on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @03:31AM (#9603368)

It's nice to see this event get more attention, although this story did not add much to what has already been reported. I'm not sure how secure and plentiful the old NREC's funding was. My impression is that they were chasing a lot of small pots of money. Maybe that's part of the reason why CMU has not been bothered.

Clearly this move by Uber rewrote the book. They took the director of the center, Tony Stentz, and a lot of others besides.

That's not the only case of significant recruiting decimating robotics staff members recently, either. There have been a lot of departures from my own lab.

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Re:Uber poached people from Carnegie Mellon robotics lab to ... by caminante on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @04:07AM (#9603460)

Yeah, the NREC's 2013 budget was only ~$30M...

At your office, have you experienced any "lingering resentment" -- similar to that in the article?

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Re:Uber poached people from Carnegie Mellon robotics lab to ... by mturmon on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @11:48AM (#9605562)

I have not experienced the resentment, but most of my friends were among those who left. I'm not in robotics, I do classification, but I worked with them. A new crop of graduates has taken their place.

The suddenness was rather amazing. Salary bumps were given but it was not enough.

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