National Robotics Engineering Center

They are piloting their tech directly with the major automotive industry players right in their backyard.

And Pittsburgh robotics startups are deploying in real-world warehouses through Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center.

And if you understand the mechanics of startup financing, you realize why this demand mountain is so critical.

Revenue from a pilot program is non-dilutive capital.

Exactly.

But with the Chocolate Factory being next to NREC and all the spin-outs that have come out of NREC and started at the Chocolate Factory, some of them moved over to the Tech Forge, Carnegie Robotics in the Heppenstall Blue Building.

It's really been a fun and amazing journey to see the ecosystem grow, Lawrenceville grow, the companies grow.

And hopefully we're going to do it again and again in other parts of the city.

Yeah.

Amazing.

That's really been our focus and our strategy is build these sort of catalytic assets like the SCIF, like the test track, like the additive manufacturing environment at N91, like the robotics environment around NREC in Lawrenceville, and really leveraging the great resources that CMU and Pitt have here and creating opportunities for those that turn into jobs and revenue and investment here in our region.

And