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Robot Uses Deep Learning and Big Data to Write and Play its Own Music

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.

Autonomous Driving Research Collaboration gets a Boost from Qualcomm

Santos Chosen for La Caixa Fellowship

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

Howard Featured in Atlanta Magazine's Women Making a Mark

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

ICRA Awards Chair Martin Buss presents Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award to Magnus Egerstedt

IRIM Team Awarded ICRA Best Paper Award

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).

Researchers Work to Make Robots the First-responders after Nuclear Power Plant Disasters

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jun 1, 2017

Georgia Tech Among Top Participating Institutions at ICRA 2017

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.

Meet These Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research

Forbes, May 24, 2017

Teaching Robots Right From Wrong

1843 Magazine, The Economist, May 17, 2017

Drone Swarms Avoid Crashing With “Safety Bubbles”

Motherboard, May 15, 2017

Virtual “Top Hats” Ensure Swarming Drones Won’t Crash

Engadget, May 15, 2017

Controlling a Robot is Now as Simple as Point and Click

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.

Swarms of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles Test New Dogfighting Skills

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.

Georgia Tech Wins First-Ever Collegiate Drone Racing National Championship

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

IRIM Welcomes Its First Visiting Faculty Fellow

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

Nancey Green Leigh: We Are 'Shaping a Robotic Future at Georgia Tech'

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

RoboJackets Providing Opportunity for Both Competition and Outreach

Creating the Next in Robotics at Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech, Apr 10, 2017

CS 3630: A Robotics Class for the Masses

Georgia Tech, Apr 10, 2017

Major League Machines: Meet IRIM's 2017 Team of Featured Robots

Georgia Tech, Apr 7, 2017

The Women of Georgia Tech Robotics

Georgia Tech, Apr 7, 2017

Vivian Chu Working to Provide Robots Basic Building Blocks for Cognition

Aaron Young Named One of the 2017 New Faces of Engineering

DiscoverE Engineering, Apr 5, 2017

The Automated University: Bots and Drones Amid the Dreaming Spires

The Guardian, Apr 4, 2017

Dan Goldman Receives Endowed Professorship

College of Sciences Website, Mar 23, 2017

Howard Chosen for Atlanta Magazine Honor

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.

Robotic Nudging' Might Make Us Happier and Less Embarrassed

Inverse, Mar 8, 2017

‘Artificial Intelligence’ Has Become Meaningless

The Atlantic, Mar 7, 2017

IC Associate Professor Karen Liu Earns Google Research Faculty Award

Pair of IC Assistant Professors Earn Awards for Research in Visual Question Answering

Thad Starner Named to Prestigious CHI Academy

College of Computing Website, Feb 24, 2017

AI and Robotics Trends: Experts Predict

Datamation, Feb 15, 2017

Fumin Zhang Among ECE Faculty Members Awarded Promotion, Tenure

Georgia Tech ECE Website, Feb 10, 2017

Team Hits Bull’s Eye Winning Global Software Challenge

Jaydev Desai Among BME Faculty to Be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite

BME Website, Feb 1, 2017

Larry Sweet Elected to Robotics Industries Association Board of Directors

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

Paper Recognized for Enduring Contributions to Robotics

Amazon Research Awards Fund Computer Vision and Machine Learning Projects

Ayanna Howard: A Robot for Everyone

CGTN TV, Jan 21, 2017

Final Teams Selected for International Robotics Challenge

EIN Presswire, Jan 17, 2017

Black Female Robotics Scientist Launches STEM Startup

Black Enterprise Magazine, Jan 15, 2017

Students Compete in Regional Robotics Tournament

WDEF-TV 12, Jan 15, 2017

Two Approaches to Robotic Skin Materials

Design News, Jan 9, 2017