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People Think Robots Are Pretty Incompetent and Not Funny, New Study Says
Planetary Exploration Rover Avoids Sand Traps with “Rear Rotator Pedaling”

Built with wheeled appendages that can be lifted and wheels able to wiggle, a new robot known as the “Mini Rover” has developed and tested complex locomotion techniques robust enough to help it climb hills covered with granular material – and avoid the risk of getting ignominiously stuck on some remote planet or moon.
AI, Robots, and Ethics in the Age of COVID-19

MIT Sloan Management Review, May 12, 2020
Shimon’s Full Album Now Available on Spotify

IEEE Spectrum, Apr 24, 2020
NASA University Leadership Initiative Taps Costello and Vamvoudakis to Help with $8M Research

Aerospace Engineering, Apr 20, 2020
Tsiotras to Collaborate with Stanford University on NASA Research Initiative

Aerospace Engineering, Apr 16, 2020
Opinion: The Incredible Potential of Soft Robotics, Featuring the Work of Ellen Mazumdar

Robotics & Automation News, Mar 9, 2020
Sehoon Ha and Google Team Build an Adorable Four-legged Robot called 'Rainbow Dash' that Taught Itself to Walk without Human Help

Business Insider Australia, Mar 3, 2020
Forget Chess—the Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D

Wired, Feb 28, 2020
Greg Sawicki and Team Publish Research on Elastic Ankle Exoskeletons in Top Scientific Journal: Nature

Nature, Feb 27, 2020
Georgia Tech Researchers Study The Way Of The Wok

Forbes, Feb 26, 2020
Shriners Hospitals for Children and Georgia Tech Announce Research Affiliation

You see and want the glass of milk on the table across the room. That’s no problem for most of us, who will simply walk to the table, grab the glass, and enjoy the milk. Triggering all of that limb movement is a complex set of coordinated neuromuscular commands and actions, which are not so simple for that segment of the population with, say, cerebral palsy or spinal cord injury.
Ultra-Low-Power Chips Help Make Small Robots More Capable

Electronic Deal Pro, Feb 26, 2020
Shimon the Singer-Songwriter Robot to Launch First Album and Tour

New Atlas, Feb 25, 2020
Shimon: Now a Singing, Songwriting Robot

The marimba-playing robot Shimon uses deep learning to compose lyrics and melodies with human collaborators and a synthesized voice to sing.
Robotics Ph.D. Alumna Crystal Chao Named One of the Top Ten Women in Robotics Industry

Analytics Insight, Feb 23, 2020
David Hu and His Research Team Conduct Fried Rice Experiments, Hoping to One Day Inspire Stir-fry Robotics and Exoskeletons

Gizmodo, Feb 12, 2020
Harrison Family Supports Poultry Technology at Georgia Tech Research Institute
Autonomous Transportation and Connected Roads Announces First Round of Seed Grant Funding

Autonomous Transportation and Connected Roads (ATCR), Feb 6, 2020
Ayanna Howard Scheduled to Speak at Amazon’s 2020 re:MARS Event in June

Robotics Business Review, Feb 5, 2020
Changing the Conversation: Georgia Tech Researchers Provide New Approach to Automated Story Generation
Warm Water Found Beneath Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier

Tech Explorist, Jan 31, 2020
Team Makes Semifinals in Global AI Competition
Why Asking an AI to Explain Itself Can Make Things Worse

MIT Technology Review, Jan 29, 2020
Robotic Submarine Snaps First-Ever Images at Foundation of Notorious Antarctic Glacier

These are the first-ever images taken at the foundations of the glacier that inspires more fear of sea-level rise than any other - Thwaites Glacier. Its grounding line is integral to Thwaites' fate and that of the world's coastlines, and an underwater vehicle from the Georgia Institute of Technology has made the first-ever visit to it as a part of the historic International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration.
Climate Change: Scientists Concerned about Future of Antarctic Glacier

BBC, Jan 28, 2020
The Incredible Potential of Soft Robotics

Georgia Tech College of Engineering, Jan 27, 2020
Three Georgia Tech Faculty Named IEEE Fellows

Georgia Tech faculty members Stanislav Emelianov, Richard Fujimoto, and Vivek Sarkar have been named IEEE Fellows, the society’s highest grade of membership, effective January 1, 2020.
Jill Watson, an AI Pioneer in Education, Turns 4

Georgia Tech’s most well-known artificially intelligent teaching assistant, Jill Watson, turns four years old this January.
Marilyn J. Smith Named a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society

Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering, Jan 21, 2020
Robotics History: Narratives and Networks Oral Histories with Ayanna Howard

IEEE.tv, Jan 21, 2020
Dhruv Batra and Erik Wijmans Help Facebook Speed up AI Training

TechCrunch, Jan 21, 2020
Commentary by Ayanna Howard: How Artificial Intelligence Reflects Human Biases — And How It Can Improve

GPB, Jan 14, 2020
Listening Like a Human, Playing Like a Machine, with Gil Weinberg

Robohub, Jan 10, 2020
Award Recognizes Professor's Impact on the Evolution of Online Learning
Go Nuts, Georgia: Georgia Tech Alumni, Engineers Innovate in $2.2 Billion Peanut Industry

Tifton Gazette, Jan 7, 2020
On Second Thought: The Future of AI

Georgia Public Broadcasting, Jan 6, 2020
Video Friday: How to Train Your Robot to Pull an Airplane

IEEE Spectrum, Jan 3, 2020