Georgia Institute of Technology Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines

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.