Georgia Institute of Technology Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Researchers have created a device that makes walking up and down stairs easier. They’ve built energy-recycling stairs that store a user’s energy during descent and return energy to the user during ascent.

The Boeing Manufacturing Development Center works to implement automation in industrial applications. It is one of 17 corporate innovation centers on Georgia Tech’s campus. 

Researchers fed a robot nearly 5,000 complete songs — from Beethoven to the Beatles to Lady Gaga to Miles Davis — and more than 2 million motifs, riffs and licks of music. The four-armed, marimba-playing machine is using deep learning to write and play its own music.

ECE Ph.D. student Maria Santos has been chosen for a La Caixa Fellowship for Graduate Studies in North America.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard is featured in Atlanta magazine's Women Making a Mark.

An interdisciplinary team of graduate students and faculty from the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) won the Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 

Georgia Tech’s participation at ICRA 2017 is among the top ten of all institutions represented at the conference, ranking among nearly 3,000 of the world's leading roboticists contributing to 953 papers.

A new interface designed by Georgia Institute of Technology researchers allows users to simply point and click on an item, then choose a grasp, to control a robot remotely.

In what may have been the first aerial encounter of its kind, researchers recently pitted two swarms of autonomous aircraft against one another over a military test facility. While the friendly encounter may not have qualified as an old-fashioned dogfight, it provided the first example of a live engagement between two swarms of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), and allowed the two teams to demonstrate different combat tactics in flight.

A talented trio of Georgia Tech students will go down in history as the first team to win the Collegiate Drone Racing National Championship.

Johns Hopkins’ Gregory S. Chirikjian will join IRIM as its first Visiting Faculty Fellow on Monday, April 17.

Associate Dean for Research Nancey Green Leigh answered a few questions about the future of robotics at the College of Design and Georgia Tech.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been selected as one of Atlanta magazine’s 2017 Women Making a Mark, a distinction reserved for a select group of women working to grow and strengthen the metro Atlanta community. 

The Robotics Industries Association (RIA) recently announced its new board members, including the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machine’s (IRIM) Larry Sweet.