The correct answer is: A. CMU
The Robotics Institute is a research institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1966 by Raj Reddy, and is one of the leading robotics research centers in the world. The institute has over 200 faculty members and 500 graduate students, and its research covers a wide range of topics in robotics, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and sensor fusion. The Robotics Institute has also developed a number of successful commercial products, including the Shakey robot, the CMU Personal Robot, and the Carnegie Mellon Navlab.
The other options are incorrect. MIT is a private research
university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. SRI is a nonprofit research institute in Menlo Park, California.