Given the fact that education is the key component of the RIM program, students participating in RIM projects have the opportunity to learn about the latest in robotics hardware and software in our laboratories. This direct interaction prepares them to graduate from Georgia Tech with a technological skillset that directly benefits industry.
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Robotics Highlighted in President's Spring 2013 Update
The President’s Update, now available online, provides a high-level overview of Georgia Tech’s impact, as well as research, innovation, student, faculty, and staff accomplishments. The breakthrough research that Georgia Tech is doing in robotics is gaining national and international attention.
Ants Provide Intel for Improving Robot Locomotion
Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States. Watch a video of this project at RIM Media Page.
Helper Robots to Care for the Aging
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed Cody, a robotic nurse the university says is “gentle enough to bathe elderly patients.”… A recent Georgia Tech study found that older people were intrigued by the idea of robotic assistants in the home, but a robot’s appearance played a large role in what they will trust the machines to do. Older people want robots that look human for tasks that involve intelligence, like recommending which medicine they need to take.