Georgia Tech

Healthcare robotics for therapy, with Ayanna Howard

In this short video lecture, Ayanna M. Howard, Motorola Foundation Professor and Associate Director of Research at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (Georgia Institute of Technology...

27 October 2015, by International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS)

Documentary of a cyborg drummer

[focus08] Beautiful short documentary by The Atlantic about amputee drummer Jason Barnes and Georgia Tech professor of music technology Gil Weinberg that explores "how robotics and artificial int...

18 September 2015, by Robohub Editors

Robotic dragonflies take to the sky (with your help)

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Robot Dragonfly from TechJect. Developed over four years by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology for the US Air Force, the researchers are now i...

08 November 2012, by Mike Hamer

Robots using tools: With new grant, researchers aim to create ‘MacGyver’ robot | School of Interactive Computing

“Our goal is to develop a robot that behaves like MacGyver, the television character from the 1980s who solved complex problems and escaped dangerous situations by using everyday objects and materia...

09 October 2012, by Andra Keay

GA Tech’s extensive robotics program

The Georgia Institute of Technology lays on a beautiful 400 acre campus and is a university committed to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. It also has campuses in...

06 August 2012, by Frank Tobe

SoftWear Automation awarded $1.25 million DARPA contract

SoftWear Automation, the latest in a string of ventures founded by Steve Dickerson - a retired Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology - and nurtu...

29 June 2012, by John Payne

Tovbot’s Shimi at Google I/O

http://youtu.be/s6bs1rrOwxo Tovbot's Shimi made its first public appearance two days ago at Google I/O, where not just one but three Shimis performed in perfect coordination. Tovbot was formed earlie...

29 June 2012, by John Payne

Catching up with robots

http://youtu.be/UpyKt6mClVA The above video, by Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman of IEEE Spectrum, and shows Patrick Rowe, of RE2 (RE-squared), the firm hired by DARPA to build the standard platform fo...

28 May 2012, by John Payne