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At-home Robots Monitor Kids After Surgery
It sounds like a plot straight out of the futuristic sitcom “The Jetsons” - robots that tend to and monitor patients recovering from surgery. But such a scenario is no longer science fiction. . . .Charlie Kemp, director of the Healthcare Robotics Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said patients can expect these technologies to start popping up throughout the health care system as technology becomes less expensive and more refined, and telecommunications infrastructure more reliable. “Technology is maturing to the extent that it can make an impact on everyday lives,” Kemp said.
Two RIM Faculty Members Named to the Class of 2012 IEEE Fellows
The IEEE Board of Directors, at its November 2011 meeting, has elected Professor Magnus Egerstedt (CoE, ECE) and Professor Irfan Essa (CoC, SIC) to IEEE Fellow grade effective 1 January 2012.
The IEEE Board of Directors elevated Professor Magnus Egerstedt to IEEE Fellow, with the following citation: for contributions to hybrid and networked control, with applications in robotics.
The IEEE Board of Directors elevated Professor Irfan Essa to IEEE Fellow, with the following citation: for contributions to computer vision and graphics.
GTRI Mentors Show Their BEST in Robotics Competition
Two high school teams scoring first and second places in the BEST (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology) Georgia Robotics competition on Oct. 29, 2011, have something in common: Engineers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) serve as team mentors.
Principal Research Engineer Tom Collins helped mentor the Fernbank LINKS team from DeKalb County Schools to a first-place finish, while Research Engineer Bob Baggerman’s Grady High School team took second place. In 2010, the Grady High team took the overall top prize.