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Through integrated research across many disciplines and campus units, Georgia Tech develops innovative solutions for manufacturing, healthcare, and autonomy, as well as for a variety of other critical areas, including defense and service applications. Using state-of-the-art facilities and working with strategic partners, we improve society by investigating novel robotic technologies that enhance the lives of everyone.
Core Research Areas
 Innovations in mechanisms enhance motion control and intelligent sensing. |
 Advances in control improve the safety, effectiveness and predictability of robots. |
 Research in perception refines techniques for object detection and tracking. |
 New approaches in AI improve discovery, recognition and planning technologies. |
 Research in interaction enhances the capabilities of robots to work with people. |
 Advances in system design and integration improve performance and efficiency. |
Industry Engagement
Education Highlights
Featured Labs
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The Healthcare Robotics Lab is an interdisciplinary lab with members from Biomedical, Mechanical, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as Interactive Computing. The lab’s research advances the capabilities of robots to provide valued assistance to people in unstructured environments. They work with semi-autonomous mobile robots that physically manipulate the world, and healthcare serves as an important motivating application area for most research.
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The vision of the Socially Intelligent Machines Lab is to enable robots to function in dynamic human environments by allowing them to flexibly adapt their skill set via learning interactions with end users. The group calls this attribute socially guided machine learning (SG-ML), and they explore the ways in which machine learning agents can exploit principles of human social learning. Their work focuses on two research thrusts: interactive machine learning and natural interaction patterns for HRI.
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The Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems (GRITS) Lab conducts research in the general area of networked and hybrid control systems with applications for the control and coordination of mobile robots. The common theme behind its different research threads is providing theoretically sound solutions to practically motivated problems. Research in the lab is organized in three main areas: hybrid systems, networked control systems, and mobile robots.
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In the Laboratory for Neuroengineering (NeuroLab), interdisciplinary teams work together to combine wet-lab biomaterials, neurobiology, neuroimaging, electronics, modeling and multi-dimensional data analysis. The group advances the understanding of fundamental neural processes, including neural repair and regeneration, sensory-motor integration, hybrid neural systems and computational dynamics in the nervous system.
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The Complex Rheology And Biomechanics (CRAB) Lab focuses on complex interactions of matter with solid and fluid materials. For example, how do lizards, crabs, and cockroaches cope with locomotion on complex terrestrial substrates such as sand, bark, leaves, and grass? Among other applications, this work leads to discoveries that can enhance robot agility on various substrates.
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The focus of the Human-Automation Systems (HumAnS) Lab is centered on the concept of humanized intelligence, the process of embedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous systems. Specifically, researchers study how human-inspired techniques, such as soft computing methodologies, sensing, and learning, can be used to enhance the autonomous capabilities of intelligent systems, whether virtual or physical.
Robotics News
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Team of Robots Learns to Work Together, Without Colliding
New algorithms allow any number of robots to move within inches of each other, without colliding, to complete their task — swapping locations on his lab floor. They are the first researchers to create such minimally invasive safety algorithms.
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Chernova Earns NASA Early Career Faculty Award
The Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machine’s Sonia Chernova is one of eight university researchers nationwide selected by NASA to receive the 2016 Early Career Faculty Award (ECF) in the Space Technology Research Grants program.
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Georgia Tech Bids Farewell to Henrik Christensen
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Ueda Contributes to Development of Vibrating Device for Surgeons
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Egerstedt Named New Executive Dir. of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The Georgia Institute of Technology today announced the appointment of Magnus Egerstedt as the new executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM).
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IRIM Launches Vintage Robotics Research Video Series
The videos cover an extended period of time and offer a behind-the-scenes look at different aspects of the earlier days of unmanned vehicle and other robotics research conducted across multiple institutions, companies, and funding agencies.
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Robot Earns its Shoes, Walks Like a Person
Researchers have created what they say is the most efficient-walking humanoid ever. While most machines these days are hunched at the waist and plod along on flat feet, DURUS strolls like a person. It lands on the heel of its foot, rolls through the step and pushes off its toe. It’s even outfitted with a pair of size-13 shoes.
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How Tails May Have Helped Ancient Animals Make the Transition from Water to Land
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Upcoming Events
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Sep 28
IRIM Robotics Seminar–Kris Hauser
Kris Hauser presents a seminar as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series.
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Sep 30
IRIM Robotics Seminar–Ivan Laptev
Ivan Laptev presents a seminar as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series.
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Oct 19
IRIM Robotics Seminar–Russ Tedrake
Russ Tedrake presents a seminar as part of the IRIM Robotics Seminar Series.
