Georgia Institute of Technology Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Building conventional robots typically requires carefully combining components like motors, batteries, actuators, body segments, legs and wheels. Now, researchers have taken a new approach, building a robot entirely from smaller robots known as “smarticles” to unlock the principles of a potentially new locomotion technique.

Airline will fund seed grants so researchers can test their ideas on Peachtree Corners' 1.5-mile test track.

Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology director Gil Weinberg and Ph.D candidate Richard Savery were awarded a new grant totalling $669,912 from the National Science Foundation. The purpose of the grant is to research trust and emotions between robots and humans by way of non-verbal communication.

To walk or run with finesse, roaches and robots coordinate leg movements via signals sent through centralized systems -- but utterly divergent ones. Despite their seemingly unbridgeable differences, researchers have devised handy principles and equations from studying roaches to assess how both beasts and bots locomote and to improve robotic gait.

The team placed first in the design competition and tied for third overall.

Researchers have created a new type of tiny 3D-printed robot that moves by harnessing vibration from piezoelectric actuators, ultrasound sources or even tiny speakers. Swarms of these “micro-bristle-bots” might work together to sense environmental changes, move materials – or perhaps one day repair injuries inside the human body.

For environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, infrastructure maintenance and certain security applications, slow and energy efficient can be better than fast and always needing a recharge. That’s where “SlothBot” comes in.

A TEDx Talk from ECE Ph.D. Student Celine Irvene.

NIH ranks researcher’s proposal with its best possible score

Georgia Tech researchers have been awarded $6.25 million from the Department of Defense (DoD) to use collective emergent behavior to achieve task-oriented objectives. 

An interface system that uses augmented reality technology could help individuals with profound motor impairments operate a humanoid robot to feed themselves and perform routine personal care tasks such as scratching an itch and applying skin lotion. The web-based interface displays a “robot’s eye view” of surroundings to help users interact with the world through the machine.

Magnus Egerstedt has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

An ultra-low power hybrid chip inspired by the brain could help give palm-sized robots the ability to collaborate and learn from their experiences. Combined with new generations of low-power motors and sensors, the new application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) – which operates on milliwatts of power – could help intelligent swarm robots operate for hours instead of minutes.

Desert snakes slithering across the sand at night can encounter obstacles such as plants or twigs that alter the direction of their travel -- and cause them to mimic aspects of light or subatomic particles when they encounter a diffraction grating.

ECE Ph.D. student Said Al Abri has received the Best Poster Award from the 2019 Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) Student Conference.

The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) announced its new board members during the A3 Business Forum in Orlando, Florida this past weekend. The 2019 board includes Georgia Tech’s Gary V. McMurray, who was reelected to serve a three-year term. McMurray, who was first appointed in 2016, is the only academic on the board composed of senior executives, integrators, and major end users from industry.

The Georgia Institute of Technology has selected Seth Hutchinson as the new executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM). Hutchinson is a professor and KUKA Chair for Robotics in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing and has served as associate director of IRIM.

At their October meeting in Madrid, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) elected Seth Hutchinson to serve as its president-elect under current president Wolfram Burgard.

Sam Coogan has been appointed to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, effective December 1, 2018.

A new study demonstrates the physics that elephants use to feed themselves the massive quantities of leaves, fruit and roots needed to sustain their multi-ton bodies. 

The Georgia Tech robotics community is growing. During the last two years, ten new faculty members in different colleges joined Georgia Tech and the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. 

ECE and CEE Assistant Professor Sam Coogan has been chosen for an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award.

Georgia Tech hosts a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. about the emerging debate on ethics and robotics.

For ants and robots operating in confined spaces like tunnels, having more workers does not necessarily mean getting more work done. Just as too many cooks in a kitchen get in each other’s way, having too many robots in tunnels creates clogs that can bring the work to a grinding halt.

Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy is an ideal place to study tough problems, says graduate student Ed Barker. That includes the shortage of STEM teachers, which he's taking on in his studies, and with the championship robotics team he mentors.

A robot at the Georgia Institute of Technology is successfully sliding hospital gowns on people’s arms. The machine doesn’t use its eyes as it pulls the cloth. Instead, it relies on the forces it feels as it guides the garment onto a person’s hand, around the elbow and onto the shoulder.

Dr. Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed as the new Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, effective August 1.

Ayanna Howard was one of five extraordinary women featured in the TechMAKERS initiative during the 2018 South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference in Austin, Texas.

Machine learning has been around for decades, but the advent of big data and more powerful computers has increased its impact significantly. Georgia Tech researchers are advancing both basic and applied science involved.

Shimon, the marimba playing robot, will perform at this Friday's Rise Up, Robots event.

Four Georgia Tech faculty members were named IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2018. They are BME Professor Jaydev Desai, ECE Professors Saibal Mukhopadhyay and Justin Romberg, and GTRI Senior Research Engineer Kevin James “Jim” Sangston.

ISyE Assistant Professor Yao Xie has been working with the Atlanta Police Department to create an algorithm that finds connections between crime incidents.