Basic and applied research is at the heart of RIM. The study of basic engineering problems in robotics is central to our work, but equally important is the integration of innovations and discoveries into real-world systems. The exceptionally high quality of our programs, faculty and research are rapidly positioning RIM with an international reputation for excellence and innovation.
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Georgia Tech Honored by Boeing for Exceptional Performance
Georgia Tech and RIM Director Professor Henrik Christensen recently were recognized by Boeing for outstanding performance through the company's Supplier of the Year Awards. The Institute was one of 16 organizations to receive the award from a pool of more than 17,500 Boeing suppliers in more than 50 countries.
Robot Reveals Inner Workings of Brain Cells
Researchers at MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a way to automate the process of finding and recording information from neurons in the living brain. Gaining access to the inner workings of a neuron in the living brain offers a wealth of useful information: its patterns of electrical activity, its shape, even a profile of which genes are turned on at a given moment.
Dr. Daniel Goldman wins a 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award
Daniel Goldman, an Assistant Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Physics, has been named a recipient of a 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award for his proposal "Towards a terramechanics of heterogeneous granular media". The DARPA Young Faculty Award program identifies and engages rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and exposes them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA’s program development process.