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The principal investigators (PIs) and co-PIs for these projects represent three of the Institute\u2019s six colleges, plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur faculty leverage robotics research across many disciplines,\u201d said Steve Cross, Executive Vice President for Research at Georgia Tech. \u201cTheir combined resources and expertise are leading to practical solutions for many critical challenges in areas of science and engineering.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe projects received funding through the National Robotics Initiative (NRI) program, first announced by President Obama in June 2011, and led by NSF with support from NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the USDA. The purpose of this program is to develop the next generation of robotics, to advance the capability and usability of such systems and artifacts, and to encourage existing and new communities to focus on innovative application areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETech researchers received more than $2.8 million in NRI funding in 2012 and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/236671\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E2013\u003C\/a\u003E, bringing the combined total of all current awards to over $5.75 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech has a consistent record of achievement in the field of robotics,\u201d said Henrik I. Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics and executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM), the flagship for Tech\u2019s robotics efforts. \u201cI\u2019m proud of our amazing faculty, our excellent research, and the awards our faculty members have received.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFour projects received funding through the Information \u0026amp; Intelligent Systems (IIS) division of NSF\u2019s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u201cLarge-Scale Collaborative Semantic Mapping Using 3D Structure from Motion\u201d\u2014Led by GTRI Research Scientist II \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/kira\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZsolt Kira\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, this project received almost $392K and aims to advance real-time, large-scale distributed semantic mapping of outdoor environments with practical applications in city planning, asset management, creation of historical records, and support for autonomous driving. IRIM Associate Director of Education and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/dellaert\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrank Dellaert\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (School of Interactive Computing) serves as co-PI on the project.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u201cCollaborative Research: Exploiting Granular Mechanics to Enable Robotic Locomotion\u201d\u2014Led by School of Physics Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/goldman\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDaniel I. Goldman\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, this research focuses on developing computationally efficient analysis tools and techniques to create better methods for mobile robots to maneuver on unstructured terrains, such as those found in deserts, disaster sites, containers, and caves. Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/hu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid L. 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Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/theodorou\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEvangelos Theodorou\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (School of Aerospace Engineering) serves as co-PI on the project.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u201cRepresenting and Anticipating Actions in Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly Tasks\u201d\u2014Led by School of Interactive Computing Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/bobick\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAaron Bobick\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, this project received almost $550K and aims to make fundamental advances that enable task specification to be compiled or converted into a grammar-like description of the human activity, specifically to improve human-robot collaboration for assembly tasks where the robot assists a human worker by providing tools or parts as required. Two members of the School of Interactive Computing (IC) serve as co-PIs on the project: Associate Dean for Off-Campus and Special Initiatives and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/essa\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIrfan Essa\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and KUKA Chair of Robotics and Executive Director of IRIM\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/christensen\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHenrik I. Christensen\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. Additionally, \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/stilman\u0022\u003EMike Stilman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, another member of IC who died in May, is listed as a co-PI.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe fifth project, \u201cMultipurpose Robotic Platform for Field Scouting and Sampling,\u201d received more than $900K from the USDA. Led by IRIM Associate Director of Research and GTRI Principal Research Engineer \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/mcmurray\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGary V. McMurray\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the research aims to improve crop yields by developing the robotic technology required to autonomously collect data to monitor crops in a field or orchard, including crop scouting for biotic yield-reducing factors, such as pest organisms like insects, plant pathogens, and weeds; as well as abiotic stresses, such as inadequate moisture and nutrient levels. Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ent.uga.edu\/personnel\/faculty\/rains.htm\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGlen C. Rains\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (Department of Entomology at the University of Georgia) serves as co-PI on the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERobotics research at Georgia Tech attracts more than $35 million in sponsored research each year. Core research areas include mechanisms, control, perception, artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, and application systems technologies. Tech advances personal and everyday robotics through its research into the ways robots can learn from and interact with humans, by developing advanced technologies, and by exploring issues surrounding the governance and ethical use of robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Awards IIS-1426998, IIS-1426443, IIS-1426945, and IIS-1427300; and by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under Award 2014-67021-22556. 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Fleets of self-driving cars \u2014 which wirelessly communicate with each other to manage traffic flow \u2014 could be the answer to Atlanta\u2019s notorious gridlock.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u201cOver time, this is the real game changer we\u2019re looking for,\u201d said state Rep. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/search\/results?q=Ed%20Setzler\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEd Setzler\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, R-Acworth, a member of a House of Representatives study committee on autonomous vehicle technology that will begin meeting in a few weeks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EThe committee will establish a legal structure for assessing fault in case of a crash involving a self-driving car, Setzler said. \u201cIf a car is on the street and a driver is not behind the wheel, a chain of responsibility needs to be in place so if something goes badly, things will be made right,\u201d he said. The committee will make recommendations to the General Assembly by year-end.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003ESome luxury cars already boast semi-autonomous features, including automatic parallel parking, lane-departure alerts and adaptive cruise control.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u201cThe self-driving car is the ultimate response to distracted driving,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/search\/results?q=Thilo%20Koslowski\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThilo Koslowski\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EGartner\u003C\/strong\u003E vice president. By 2016, at least three companies will announce launch dates for their first self-driving car models, he said. Carmakers are interested in reducing traffic accidents and keeping the automobile relevant. \u201cWhen we have an aging population and younger consumers that aren\u2019t interested in owning a vehicle, the auto industry needs to figure out different ways to attract customers,\u201d Koslowski said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003ETraffic congestion, auto accidents and new business opportunities are driving momentum for the development of autonomous vehicle technologies. A third of U.S. vehicle owners surveyed by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/profiles\/company\/us\/ct\/stamford\/gartner_inc\/1177436\u0022\u003EGartner\u003C\/a\u003E in the first quarter said they are interested in having self-driving capabilities in their next vehicle.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EGeorgia, a transportation hub and research center, is suited for development of self-driving technologies, said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/search\/results?q=Henrik%20Christensen\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHenrik Christensen\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, executive director of \u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u2019s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u201cOur infrastructure is already extended beyond capacity and [autonomous driving technologies] offer a great opportunity to address that,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/profiles\/company\/us\/ga\/atlanta\/georgia_tech\/3331863\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E is doing research on autonomous driving technology, smart sensors, car safety systems and increased driver awareness.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u201cLarge-scale experiments to explore interaction between regular cars and autonomous cars [are] interesting,\u201d Christensen said. \u201cAs an urban campus, Georgia Tech is ideally suited to explore this.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EMichigan, California, Nevada and Florida have taken the lead \u2014 opening up to self-driving vehicle research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003ESelf-driving vehicles will be transformative for commuting, noted \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/search\/results?q=Stephen%20Fleming\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStephen Fleming\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Tech vice president.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EAutonomous vehicle development is being steered by the tech industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EA lot of the processing is not going to happen in the car, but in the \u201ccloud\u201d and between vehicle systems.\u201cIt\u2019s not \u2018do we know how to build an engine and a transmission,\u2019\u201d Fleming said. \u201cIt\u2019s \u2018do we know how to build software networks that can negotiate with other networks in a secure and rapid manner\u2019 \u2014 and that Atlanta knows how to do.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Ch1\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h1\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech\u2019s Henrik Christensen and Stephen Fleming comment on proposed legislation."}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-08-22 11:38:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:56","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"318241":{"id":"318241","type":"image","title":"IRIM\u2019s Executive Director Henrik I. 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Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award. Howard, the Motorola Foundation Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), will be presented with this honor at the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, to be held October 8-10 in Phoenix, Arizona.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award recognizes the development of innovative teaching practices and approaches that attract girls and women to computing, engineering, and math. A robotics researcher, teacher, and mentor, Howard has engaged hundreds of female and minority students in computing, engineering, and science through numerous K-12 outreach programs and summer camps.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore coming to Georgia Tech, Howard worked at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Caltech from 1993-2005, where she led research efforts on various robotic projects that led to her being named to the \u003Cem\u003EMIT Technology Review\u003C\/em\u003E TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35. While at JPL, she founded and ran the Pasadena Delta Academy, a mentoring program for at-risk teen girls focused on STEM education, and the JPL Undergraduate Mentoring Program for Women, which provided mentoring support to undergraduate women engineering students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA faculty member at Georgia Tech since 2005, Howard directs the Human-Automation Systems (HumAnS) Lab, where she blends control theory, human-robot interaction methods, and learning to the area of field and service robotics. She is the faculty lead of the I-Natural Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) Team, a multi-year multidisciplinary research team of undergraduates tasked to design, build, and test interfaces that enable humans to naturally interact with robots in performing activities of daily living. She has also teamed with faculty at the Atlanta Girls School to introduce a similar experience for a group of its 11\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E and 12\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E grade students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2008, Howard received worldwide attention for her SnoMote robots, designed to study the impact of global warming on the Antarctic iceshelfs. She started a live blog to document the last glacier field trails in 2010 as part of a virtual scientist live videoconference with three minority-serving Boston high schools.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the last five years in Atlanta, Howard has hosted middle and high school robotics camps that have involved over 350 minority and female students and students with disabilities. At these camps, students were asked to solve challenges ranging from designing their own NASA lunar colony and robot assistants to programming AIBO robotic dogs to programming a robot avatar using a gaming scenario. 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They will compete in five divisions on miniature indoor fields. The tournament runs from July 21-24, with the preceding weekend allotted for setup, testing, and\u0026nbsp;an opening ceremony on Sunday. The event concludes on July 25 with an all-day symposium for adult participants and a workshop on educational robotics for RoboCup junior leagues.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech plans to compete in the Soccer Small Size League tournament using small, boxy robots with omnidirectional wheels. RoboJackets Vice President Lindsey Langstaff, an undergraduate student majoring in mechanical engineering, says she looks forward to working with other teams to help further research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou want to be able to bring something to the table that nobody\u2019s come up with yet,\u201d she says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOrganizers make the game tougher each year by changing parameters like field size or number of players. Next year, RoboCup co-chairman Alexandre da Silva Simoes, says, the robots might play outside.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoboJackets is a diverse group of students, faculty, and alumni that aims to enhance the understanding of the field of robotics and its applications and increase the number of students exposed to robotics. 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Stroke hemiparesis individuals are not able to move that part of their body because they cannot create a strong enough neural signal that travels from the brain to the wrist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith RFE, however, patients get a mental boost. They are asked to think about moving. At the same time, a practitioner flexes the wrist. The goal is to send a long latency response from the stretch that arrives in the brain at the exact time the thought happens, creating a neural signal. The result is a strong, combined response that zips back to the forearm muscles and moves the wrist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt all happens in a span of approximately 40 to 60 milliseconds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTiming is everything. When the window is that small, it\u2019s not easy for two people to match each other,\u201d said Georgia Institute of Technology master\u2019s graduate Lauren Lacey.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s why Lacey and a team of fellow Georgia Tech researchers created a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6_f1blCNnUs\u0022\u003Emechanical device that takes people out of the process\u003C\/a\u003E, replacing them with accurate computers. Their functional MRI-compatible hemiparesis rehab device creates a long latency stretch reflex at the exact time as a brain signal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like trying to fill a bucket with water,\u201d explained Minoru Shinohara, an associate professor in the School of Applied Physiology and director of the Human Neuromuscular Physiology Lab. \u201cStroke individuals can only mentally fill it halfway. The machine pours in the rest to make it full.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo far, the research team has worked only with healthy individuals in their study. Study participants lie on a bed with the arm extended beneath a pneumatic actuator tendon hammer. In order to simulate the weak signal created by hemiparesis individuals to move their wrist, a transcranial magnetic stimulator (TMS) is placed on the heads of these healthy individuals at a 45-degree angle. Milliseconds after the hammer taps the wrist\u2019s tendon, the TMS creates a weak signal in the motor cortex. The responses overlap, produce and send a strong signal back to the arm, and the wrist moves.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team has successfully varied the timing of the TMS signal and speed of the hammer to strike faster or slower depending on how much of a boost is needed to complement the brain signal. Now that the researchers have proven the viability of the TMS-actuator system, they will next work with stroke individuals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe device is designed to adapt to people whether they are hyper, normo or hyporeflexive,\u201d said Lacey, who graduated in spring with a master\u2019s degree from the George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso, because the machine is MRI-compatible, it will allow the team to study what is happening in the brain during rehab, opening the door for robotics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOnce we fully understand what is happening mentally and physiologically, we should be able to create a robot that can reproduce successful rehabilitative exercises such as RFE,\u201d said Jun Ueda, an associate professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering. \u201cIt appears that the timing is the critical piece of this exercise. Robots are great at timing, so the results are very promising for robotics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team was assisted by researchers at Japan\u2019s Kagoshima University, Kazumi Kawahira, Megumi Shimodozono and Yong Yu, who originally performed clinical studies of conventional RFE. The device was presented at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dmd.umn.edu\/\u0022\u003EDesign of Medical Devices Conference\u003C\/a\u003E in Minneapolis, Minnesota this spring.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was partially supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under sub-award EEC 0540834. 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If the building topples and points increase, the eyes light up and the machine celebrates with a happy sound and dance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe robot is able to learn by watching because it knows how interaction with a tablet app is supposed to work,\u201d said Georgia Tech\u2019s Ayanna Howard, Motorola Foundation Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering who is leading the project. \u201cIt recognizes that a person touched here and ended there, then deciphers the information that is important and relevant to its progress.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe robot analyzes the new information and provides appropriate social responses while changing its play strategy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne way to get robots more quickly into society is to design them to be flexible for end users,\u201d said Hae Won Park, Howard\u2019s postdoctoral fellow working closely on the project. \u201cIf a robot is only trained to perform a specific set of tasks and not able to learn and adapt to its owner or surroundings, its usefulness can become extremely limited.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat flexibility is one reason Howard and Park see their robot-smart tablet system as a future rehabilitation tool for children with cognitive and motor-skill disabilities. A clinician could program the robot to cater to a child\u2019s needs, such as turn taking or hand-eye coordination tasks, and then send the machine home.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother benefit for rehab: parents don\u2019t always have time or enough patience for repetitive rehabilitation sessions. But a robot never gets tired or bored. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cImagine that a child\u2019s rehab requires a hundred arm movements to improve precise hand-coordination movements,\u201d said Howard. \u201cHe or she must touch and swipe the tablet repeatedly, something that can be boring and monotonous after a while. But if a robotic friend needs help with the game, the child is more likely to take the time to teach it, even if it requires repeating the same instructions over and over again. The person\u2019s desire to help their \u2018friend\u2019 can turn a five-minute, bland exercise into a 30-minute session they enjoy.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a new study, Howard and Park asked grade-school children to play Angry Birds with an adult watching nearby. Afterwards, the kids were asked to teach a robot how to play the game. The children spent an average of nine minutes with the game as the adult watched. They played nearly three times as long (26.5 minutes) with the robot. They also interacted considerably more with the robot than the person. Only 7 percent of their session with the adult included eye contact, gestures and talking. It was nearly 40 percent with the robot.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe next steps for the Georgia Tech team will include more games for the robot, including Candy Crush and ZyroSky. They will also recruit more children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and children with motor impairments to interact with the system. 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Well, Georgia Tech is set to offer defense customers an experimental aircraft on which to place it\u2014at a fraction of the cost it would take to integrate that same payload on a conventional UAV.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new test bed is called the GTRI Airborne Unmanned Sensor System (GAUSS). \u201cIt gives us the ability to offer proof of principle tests to customers at a price that\u2019s reasonable, at a schedule that\u2019s reasonable,\u201d says Mike Brinkmann, MS EE 91, principal research engineer for sensor packages for the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGAUSS is based on the Griffon Aerospace Outlaw ER test UAV, which Tech purchased from Griffon and subsequently modified. The test bed has a 16-foot wingspan and weighs about 140 pounds, with a 35-pound payload capacity. Under Georgia Tech\u2019s authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), GAUSS can operate at a maximum ceiling of 5,000 feet, but it is capable of flying higher.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome of the modifications GTRI researchers made to the Outlaw ER are immediately apparent. \u201cIn particular, we put pods on the wings to carry the radar system and power supply, and we made some modifications internally,\u201d says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/heiges\u0022\u003EMike Heiges\u003C\/a\u003E, AE 85, MS AE 86, PhD AE 89, GTRI\u2019s principal aircraft research engineer for the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo prove it can test a variety of sensors on GAUSS, GTRI is integrating three different systems. The first is a visual light camera, the second is an RF signal detection package; and the third is a four-channel, side-looking radar designed to map the ground.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe radar is one of the first systems with these capabilities designed to be fitted on an aircraft as small as the GAUSS, and should be flying onboard it soon. \u201cThe two sensors that we have\u2014the signals recorder and also the radar\u2014we\u2019re hoping will open some doors for GTRI to conduct sponsored research with a number of customers that would like to have combinations or variations on those things,\u201d Brinkmann says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHeiges adds that GRTI has an advantage over potential competitors because the Institute has authorizations from the FAA to allow it to fly the GAUSS at several locations around the country.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat\u2019s a huge deal,\u201d Brinkmann says.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Many top defense technologies get their start in Tech\u2019s labs."}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-07-03 10:44:23","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:41","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"306831":{"id":"306831","type":"image","title":"Mike Heiges (right) adjusts GTRI\u2019s Airborne Unmanned Sensor System (GAUSS)","body":null,"created":"1449244668","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:57:48","changed":"1475895015","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:15","alt":"Mike Heiges (right) adjusts GTRI\u2019s Airborne Unmanned Sensor System (GAUSS)","file":{"fid":"199758","name":"gauss3_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gauss3_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gauss3_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1544165,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gauss3_0_0.jpg?itok=YaChp60H"}}},"media_ids":["306831"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/heiges","title":"Michael W. 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That\u2019s what \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/arkin\u0022\u003ERonald Arkin\u003C\/a\u003E, a roboticist at Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing, and other researchers aim to find out as part of the U.S. Navy-funded Heterogeneous Unmanned Networked Teams (HUNT) Project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInitiated in 2008, the HUNT Project is a multi-phased study that looks at assorted animal interactions\u2014from wolves stalking an elk to squirrels hiding acorn caches\u2014as inspiration for developing new algorithms to guide intelligent autonomous systems. For now, Arkin has been working with computer models and little bots in the lab. But things can always scale up to larger, more robust unmanned vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat\u2019s the beauty of the basic research,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s not limited to a physical type of platform.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the earliest subjects of HUNT was \u201clekking\u201d behavior in birds, in which a group of males gathers around\u2014but not too closely\u2014a very handsome specimen (a \u201chotshot\u201d) in order to mate with females. This became the basis for seeing how one could distribute autonomous systems behind enemy lines \u201cwithout using strict formation control\u201d but in a way that \u201cmaximizes the likelihood of encounter\u201d with the enemy, Arkin says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2010 and 2011, Arkin and his team moved on to wolf packs. Initially, they thought the wolves coordinated with each other when hunting elk. But Dan MacNulty, a professor of wildlife ecology at Utah State University, disabused them of that notion. \u201cWhen we brought Dan in the first time, he informed us that there is no coordination,\u201d he says. \u201cThey are all individual, greedy agents.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo how exactly did they work as a pack without explicit rules or communication? One possible explanation was that a predator chasing down an elk indicated to the others that the hunted animal was weak. So applying a probabilistic model to the stage of a hunt, Arkin tried to \u201creplicate that behavior in robotic systems to see if we could do the same sort of thing both in simulations and platforms.\u201d And he succeeded.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFollowing on the wolf pack research, Arkin then looked at bird mobbing, in which birds gather to drive off a stronger predator. Did it make sense for a weak bird to feign strength and participate in the mobbing? His simulations demonstrated that under certain conditions, yes, it did. And those same lessons could be applied to a low-power robot or one that\u2019s out of ammo.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArkin is now looking more broadly at robot deception. 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It\u2019s just one of the unlikely species inspiring Georgia Tech researchers to improve lives, animal and human alike.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite the many famous animals that populate the annals of Georgia Tech lore\u2014Sideways, Stumpy\u2019s bear, the St. Bernards of Lambda Chi\u2014for many years, the Institute rarely engaged with animals in an academic capacity. Even as recently as the late 1990s, every single research animal on Tech\u2019s campus was contained in a single tank inside a lab in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The sum total: six goldfish.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the ensuing years, Georgia Tech researchers have expanded their focus to more fully explore the intersection of engineering and the natural world. And as they have, one theme has emerged again and again: For as much as we still have to learn about animals, they may have even more to teach us about ourselves.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese days, animals are helping researchers to better understand not only animals themselves but also the wider world, including humankind\u2019s place within it\u2014our physiology, our brains, our interactions with our environments. Animals are inspiring Georgia Tech\u2019s faculty and students to create advanced robots, medical technology and improved prosthetics, among other developments that will shape the future, both saving and improving human lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOften, these animals aren\u2019t the types that you would expect to be saving people. Take the sidewinder rattlesnake.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s best known for lying in wait in sandy stretches of the Southwest, ready to strike any prey that comes within reach and inject it with venom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut the sidewinder\u2019s unique motion that carves an arcing trail through the desert is proving key to researchers who seek to build a robot capable of moving across sand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat is but one of a growing number of animal-related projects taking place on campus. As these endeavors have increased, Georgia Tech has taken steps to manage and oversee such work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll research involving animals is conducted under strict guidelines ensuring that as few animals as possible are used in research, and that those animals are treated humanely. Animals have given much to researchers, and so researchers do their part to give something back.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EHere, we look at just a small sampling of the ways in which animals are helping Georgia Tech researchers transform the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EINSPIRING ROBOTS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBiologically inspired robotics has developed into a major focus at the Institute, with multiple labs looking to the animal kingdom for inspiration. One challenge that has long vexed researchers is the ability to traverse across sand. It\u2019s a tricky prospect, as sandy surfaces can take on the properties of a solid, a liquid and even a gas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut while robots struggle with the surface, various animals are able to move across sand, including lizards, sea turtles and snakes. Now Tech roboticists are mining the creatures\u2019 behavior for their evolutionarily perfected secrets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnimals are inspiring Tech\u2019s faculty and students to create advanced robots, medical technology and improved prosthetics, among other developments that will shape the future, both saving and improving human lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA robotics team led by Dan Goldman, an assistant [associate] professor in the School of Physics, and David Hu, an assistant [associate] professor of mechanical engineering, began performing comparative studies on how sea turtles and sandfish (which essentially swim on land) move over sand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThen they turned to snakes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne snake-based robot that came out of the lab\u2014known as Scalybot\u2014was effective on many surfaces, but it always got stuck in sand. Many real snakes struggle with sand, too.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey partnered with Joe Mendelson, curator of herpetology at Zoo Atlanta and an adjunct professor at Tech, to study a snake that\u2019s at ease on sand: the sidewinder rattlesnake.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey\u2019re famous for their funky sideways locomotion through sand dunes,\u201d Mendelson says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech prohibits venomous snakes on campus, and Tech researchers themselves can\u2019t handle poisonous animals. Mendelson\u2019s position at Zoo Atlanta allowed him to collect sidewinders from Arizona and conduct the research at the zoo in \u201cthe world\u2019s most expensive sandbox.\u201d Tech\u2019s researchers simply observed the results.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team now has a firm understanding of how sidewinders handle sandy slopes, and they\u2019re examining how the snakes navigate obstructions. While sidewinder-style robots have obvious uses\u2014search-and-rescue missions, military operations, planetary exploration\u2014research partners from Harvard University have suggested sending the robots into sand-filled tunnels in Egyptian ruins.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA robot can\u2019t go down a sand-choked tunnel underground\u2014only a snake can do that,\u201d Mendelson says. \u201cSo we need a sidewinding robot with a camera that can look around. Then [if something of value is down there] you can put in the effort to dig it out.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe needs of robots extend far beyond traversing sand, and inspiration has come from some surprising places. Hu received a lot of attention in 2012 for publishing a study of the \u201cwet-dog shake\u201d\u2014when dogs shake wildly to dry themselves.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe physics of the wet-dog shake are impressive\u2014dogs can shake themselves 70 percent dry in just a fraction of a second. While the research might seem silly, it does have useful implications. Hu says the research could be used for improved drying technology or in robotics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn the future, self-cleaning and self-drying may arise as an important capability for cameras and other equipment subject to wet or dusty conditions,\u201d he says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIMPROVING HUMAN LIVES\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Applied Physiology is home to the Comparative Neuromechanics Lab, where humans, rats and other creatures run on instrumented treadmills. Meanwhile, researchers gather data on how animals move.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis comparative data reveals a wealth of information on how healthy animals move, and how their bodies compensate after an injury. The findings are critical to the development of new approaches to rehabilitation of human and animal patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis research could be a potential alternative to bone-grafting operations.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe lab\u2019s director, associate professor Young-Hui Chang, says he\u2019d wanted to study animal locomotion ever since growing up watching animals in National Geographic documentaries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe lab\u2019s data also is being used in Tech\u2019s Center for Prosthetic and Orthotic Research and Education to design and test new prosthetics, which are changing the lives of humans with missing limbs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the biotech quad on campus, the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences is focused largely on studying disease and injury and developing innovative treatments. One recent study showed that delivering stem cells on a polymer scaffold to treat large areas of missing bone led to improved results compared to using a scaffold alone. This research\u2014conducted on rats\u2014could be a potential alternative to bone-grafting operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMassive bone injuries are among the most challenging problems that orthopedic surgeons face, and they are commonly seen as a result of accidents as well as in soldiers returning from war,\u201d says the study\u2019s lead author, Robert Guldberg, a professor of mechanical engineering and the Institute\u2019s executive director. \u201cThis study shows that there is promise in treating these injuries by delivering stem cells to the injury site. These are injuries that would not heal without significant medical intervention.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHELPING ANIMALS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome researchers on campus have dedicated their time to developing models of animals. One team including researchers from applied physiology and biomedical engineering has developed a 3-D computer model that can be studied at almost the same level of detail as a physical specimen.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the model can\u2019t entirely replace live animals in experiments, it can greatly reduce the numbers that are used. The principal author of the model, Nathan Bunderson, also is in the process of making the model commercially available for educational purposes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother modeling effort that is providing a greater understanding of animals comes from the lab of Tech associate professor of physics Flavio Fenton.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFenton has created extensive models of hearts after studying fish, mice and horses. His detailed electronic models are a tool to researchers and veterinarians around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne project is focused on fostering a more symbiotic relationship between pets and humans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Tech-based Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations (FIDO) is an effort led by faculty member and dog lover Melody Jackson, PhD Computer Science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJackson, an associate professor of computer science and director of Tech\u2019s Center for Biointerface Research, created a vest for canines that is equipped with several sensors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA dog can trigger a sensor by nipping or nudging it, movements that send audible cues to the dog\u2019s owner. The technology could be of use for service or rescue dogs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCurrently, dogs can only communicate with people by barking or through body language. Sometimes that isn\u2019t good enough,\u201d Jackson says. \u201cThe sensors can give them a voice they\u2019ve never had.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe FIDO vest for canines is equipped with several sensors. A dog can trigger a sensor by nipping or nudging it, movement that send audible cues to the dog\u2019s owner\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe FIDO vest for canines is equipped with several sensors. A dog can trigger a sensor by nipping or nudging it, movements that send audible cues to the dog\u2019s owner.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECaring for Research Animals\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll Tech researchers whose work involves live specimens use as few animals as possible and follow strict regulations to ensure humane treatment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese regulations are enforced by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, a group that monitors all research and teaching activities at Georgia Tech involving vertebrate animals and makes certain it follows guidelines in the Federal Animal Welfare Act.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IACUC reviews any activity involving animals before animals are used, and the committee meets monthly to review protocols. IACUC responsibilities include frequent inspections and documentation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAt the deepest level, I owe animals the best possible care,\u201d says Richard Nichols, professor and chair of the School of Applied Physiology at Tech and director of the Neurophysiology Lab, whose animal research augments his study of the physiology of human locomotion. \u201cI feel particularly qualified to make sure of the humane treatment of my animals, and I regard it as a personal obligation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/researchintegrity.gatech.edu\/about-iacuc\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee\u003C\/a\u003E and the Institute\u2019s policies regarding research animals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWritten by: Van Jensen\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"The ways in which animals are helping Georgia Tech researchers transform the world."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe ways in which animals are helping Georgia Tech researchers transform the world.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The ways in which animals are helping Georgia Tech researchers transform the world."}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2014-06-26 14:43:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:41","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"305341":{"id":"305341","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech\u0027s robotics team studied how sandfish move over sand.","body":null,"created":"1449244637","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:57:17","changed":"1475895012","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:12","alt":"Georgia Tech\u0027s robotics team studied how sandfish move over sand.","file":{"fid":"199688","name":"goldmandan_article_6.2014_-_sandfish_lizard.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/goldmandan_article_6.2014_-_sandfish_lizard_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/goldmandan_article_6.2014_-_sandfish_lizard_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":135243,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/goldmandan_article_6.2014_-_sandfish_lizard_0.jpg?itok=6D8qHjfi"}}},"media_ids":["305341"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/guldberglab.gatech.edu\/","title":"Guldberg Musculoskeletal Research Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/crablab.gatech.edu\/","title":"Goldman CRAB lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/hoogle.gatech.edu\/","title":"David Hu Research Website"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ap.gatech.edu\/Nichols\/NeurophysiologyLab.php","title":"Neurophysiology Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ap.gatech.edu\/Chang\/CNL.php","title":"Comparative Neuromechanics Laboratory"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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He\u2019s presenting his ideas at a United Nations meeting in Geneva this week and sent a 2013 paper, \u201cLethal Autonomous Systems and the Plight of the Non-combatant,\u201d to outline his views.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-05-28 12:28:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:08","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"West Australia","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Articles\/2014\/05\/15\/Here-s-Why-Robots-Could-Humanize-War","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"},{"id":"64851","name":"Ronald Arkin; Ron Arkin; Robots; Killer Robots; Military Technology; Drones; Warfare"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"299651":{"#nid":"299651","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Military Wants To Teach Robots Right From Wrong","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERonald Arkin, an\u0026nbsp;AI\u0026nbsp;expert from Georgia Tech and author of the book\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Governing-Lethal-Behavior-Autonomous-Robots-ebook\/dp\/B008I9YG9G\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books\u0026amp;ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1399927574\u0026amp;sr=1-1\u0026amp;keywords=Ronald+Arkins\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGoverning Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots,\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a proponent of giving machines a moral compass. \u201cIt is not my belief that an unmanned system will be able to be perfectly ethical in the battlefield, but I am convinced that they can perform more ethically than human soldiers are capable of,\u201d Arkin wrote in a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/ai\/robot-lab\/online-publications\/formalizationv35.pdf\u0022\u003E2007 research paper (PDF).\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Part of the reason for that, he said, is that robots are capable of following rules of engagement to the letter, whereas humans are more\u0026nbsp;inconsistent.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-05-27 13:20:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:08","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/05\/the-military-wants-to-teach-robots-right-from-wrong\/370855\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1496","name":"Ethics"},{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"},{"id":"14444","name":"ron arkin"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"299661":{"#nid":"299661","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"It\u2019s Judgment Day for Killer Robots at the United Nations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Ronald C. Arkin of the Georgia Institute of Technology, who will be debating the pros and cons of autonomous weapons at the UN meeting, says he is not in favor of an outright ban, arguing that autonomous weapons could, if properly designed, reduce human casualties in war.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArkin told \u003Cem\u003EThe Wall Street Journal\u003C\/em\u003E that systems like these should not be deployed unless they can comply with international humanitarian law. He added that the machines should be able to outperform human combatants from an ethical perspective, with the hope of leading to a reduction in civilian casualties in conflict. \u201cIf that bar cannot be met then they should not be deployed,\u201d he said, adding that he supports a moratorium until such time as that bar can be met. \u201cThe original call for moratoria by the UN Special rapporteur were self imposed. \u0026nbsp;I\u2019m not sure if a ban or anything stronger is enforceable,\u201d Arkin said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-05-27 13:24:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:08","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JAG","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2014\/05\/13\/its-judgment-day-for-killer-robots-at-the-united-nations\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"},{"id":"80771","name":"Ronald Arkin; Ron Arkin; Robots; Killer Robots; Military Technology; Drones; Humanoids; Humanoid Robots; Terminator; Warfare"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"299941":{"#nid":"299941","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Scientists Debate Killer Robots at U.N. 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But his skins didn\u2019t pay the bills.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EHe and assistant Nic Whisnant had already disassembled the fan covering the oven vent. The restaurant was closed, but the streets were full of cars joining the late afternoon rush hour.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EInside the kitchen the young men had rigged garbage cans to catch water and debris that flowed down as they scrubbed. Up on the roof they sprayed solvents down the exhaust shaft. Then Barnes, 22, picked up an aluminum pole with a magnetic pad on one end.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p15\u0022\u003EOutfitted with razor-sharp blades, the pad is designed to cling to the interior of an oven vent\u2019s vertical shaft, making it easier to scrape off hardened crusts of grease inside as the worker pushes and pulls the pole from above.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EThis day was different. As Jason lifted the pole, he felt a sudden bolt of fear. \u201cGet the (heck) down!\u201d he screamed at Nic. In the same instant, he heard an explosion and saw a pink flash.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENo stranger to risk\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EWith his short, bristly blond hair perpetually standing on end, and his thin, wiry frame, Jason Barnes looks a little like a human lightning rod. That January day on the restaurant roof wouldn\u2019t be the first or last time he\u2019d attract a bolt from the hand of fate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p15\u0022\u003EA few years ago he lost a significant chunk of his arm to an untreated spider bite.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EJust recently he spun his mother\u2019s Taurus on a wet highway, completing a Shaun White-worthy 540 before leaving the pavement. He and the car came out with a few scratches.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u201cHe\u2019s for sure a daredevil,\u201d says friend Amy Ross, a tattoo artist who inked \u201cL-I-V-E\u201d on the knuckles of Jason\u2019s right hand and \u201cL-I-F-E\u201d on the knuckles of his left. \u201cEven if he\u2019s not the one that says \u2018let\u2019s go do this,\u2019 some of these things just find him.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p15\u0022\u003EJason could credit his mother Maggi Pier for his adventurous spirit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EHer life has been a vigorous and exploratory quest, moving around the world and experimenting with one business venture after another, not all of them successful. \u201cI was always one to jump in the fire and then decide if it was hot,\u201d says Pier, 63.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EJason\u2019s father, who no longer lives with the family, is an Australian rock musician named Michael Barnes. Jason inherited that music gene and was playing in metal bands by the time he was a teenager, rotating between bass, guitar and drums.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EHe was born in Guam and spent part of his childhood in Roat\u00e1n, a tiny island off the coast of Honduras in a cabin on the beach. He grew up skateboarding, racing motocross, cheating death and playing rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. 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Jason thought he\u2019d been hurt in a fire or explosion; he had no memory of the accident.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003ECo-worker Nic would never forget it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u201cThe flash blinded me,\u201d recalls Nic. They were both knocked off their feet. When Nic jumped up, he saw Jason lying on the roof. \u201cAll his hair was fried off, the sleeves to his clothes were frayed. He looked like a fish on a boat, gasping for air.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EHis doctor estimates Jason had been hit with about 1,000 volts, after an arc of electricity crossed from an overhead power line into the pole he held in his right hand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003ESurgeons sliced open his arm to relieve swelling and embedded pins in his fingers to keep them from curling into a permanent claw. Doctors also pulled strips of skin off Jason\u2019s thigh and back to graft onto the damaged arm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EThe efforts were in vain. His hand had suffered muscle and nerve damage. Most of its blood vessels were destroyed. After four or five operations it became clear he would never again use that hand to swing a drumstick again.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EJason faced one of the more painful decisions of his life. But to hear his family describe it, he was pretty matter-of-fact about it. Maybe he was just going stir crazy. Lying in a hospital bed is not his idea of a good time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWhat\u2019s the fastest way to get me out of here?\u003C\/em\u003E he asked the Grady doctors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAmputation\u003C\/em\u003E, they said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003ELooking back on the decision now, Jason counts the positives and discounts the negatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EHe points out that getting hot-wired could have turned out much worse. He could have been killed, or suffered brain damage, or lost his dominant hand. (He\u2019s left-handed.) He had been crippled, yes, but he still had something crucial, spelled out in the letters on his left hand: L-I-F-E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u201cI\u2019m ridiculously lucky, if you think about it,\u201d he says now.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EHe agreed to the operation, and then his pragmatic pluck deserted him. That night he grieved for all the things he would never get to do again and cried in his mother\u2019s arms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EDays later surgeons removed Jason\u2019s right arm below the elbow.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u2018I can do this\u2019\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EJason left the hospital with a half-million dollars in medical bills and a small settlement from the restaurant that didn\u2019t make much of a dent. He had to quit his job, give up his rental house in Jonesboro and move in with his mom near McDonough. Depressed and defeated, he went crazy with boredom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u201cWhat I was going to do? Go home, veg out and play video games?\u201d he remembers thinking. \u201cNo, you can\u2019t do that. You can\u2019t play drums anymore. You can\u2019t play guitar anymore. My life was over. I was down and out.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EBut then one day, three weeks after getting out of the hospital, Jason dragged his old drum set out of his mother\u2019s garage. He still had bandages on his incisions and wore a silicone sleeve to protect the arm during physical therapy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EHe took a roll of duct tape, attached a drumstick to his stump and tried out a simple pattern.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EIt was pathetic. And painful.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EPlaying hurt so much, it was impossible to do it for more than a minute. And the subtleties of drumming were erased by the crude arrangement. But he saw a light in that dark forest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EThings improved when a prosthetician at Hanger Inc. crafted a simple device that would hold a drumstick. Then Jason found a better custom prosthetic at TRS Inc., a company that makes appliances suited for archery, weightlifting, fishing, bicycling, guitar-playing and other activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EHe modified the device with his own hardware, using eyebolts and a spring from his kick drum. His goal was to create some \u201cplay\u201d in the stick, a way for his prosthesis to mimic the \u201cgive\u201d in a drummer\u2019s grip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EHe practiced with that appliance for about a year. \u201cI can do this,\u201d he thought. So he rescheduled the audition at Atlanta Institute of Music and Media he had missed the year before. In the fall of 2013 he was admitted to the school, where drum instructor Eric Sanders was impressed by Jason\u2019s determination and persistence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003ENevertheless, there were some things Jason couldn\u2019t do. A drummer\u2019s grip can tighten or loosen, allowing the execution of single and double-stroke rolls. The more play in the stick, the more freely the stick bounces off the drum head. Without fingers, the grip stays the same.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EJason began to research myoelectrics, a type of prosthesis controlled by electrical impulses that are generated by the body\u2019s muscles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EHe dreamed of being able to use muscle tension in his right forearm to send signals to a mechanical hand, a hand that could instantaneously loosen or tighten its grip on a drumstick.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EHe told Sanders about his fantasy, but assumed it would never become a reality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EHe didn\u2019t know it already was.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe robot arm\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech professor \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/weinberg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGil Weinberg\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E is a jazz pianist who speaks in rapid-fire bursts that make his Israeli accent even harder to decipher. The founding director of Tech\u2019s Center for Music Technology, he likes to dream up bizarre machines and then build them. He\u2019s the kind of futurist who demonstrates a technology breakthrough by jamming on a Miles Davis tune.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EWeinberg has become famous in certain circles for developing robots that not only play music, but can improvise it. One of his creations is a marimba-playing android named Shimon that was featured on Stephen Colbert\u2019s TV show. (Colbert joked that Shimon represented the two greatest threats to American life: jazz and robots.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EWhy make robots that play music when we already have Skrillex?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EThe answer is that robots, just like 5-year-olds, benefit from musical training. The same algorithms that control Weinberg\u2019s machines could help coordinate robot and human cooperation in other settings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u201cWe want robotic devices to anticipate what humans will be doing and synchronize their robotic actions just in time,\u201d says Weinberg. \u201cThe idea is that if we get this to work in music \u2014 the most time-demanding medium \u2014 it would work in other scenarios, too. Think surgery rooms or space stations.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EJason\u2019s drum instructor Eric Sanders happened to see Shimon on \u201cThe Colbert Report\u201d and found out Weinberg lived in his own back yard. He contacted the professor and told him about Jason, so Weinberg set up a meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EJason politely smiled and rolled his eyes when Sanders told him about the professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENothing will come of this,\u003C\/em\u003E he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EBut while Jason imagined a device that could replicate a normal hand\u2019s range of motions, Weinberg\u2019s ideas went further. He wanted to create something superhuman, something that could play the drums like no one had ever played them before.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EWeinberg secured a grant from the National Science Foundation to pursue the project and began to design Jason a $50,000 arm. He planned to debut it at the Atlanta Science Fest, less than eight months away, so the deadline was tight.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EUsing a light aluminum frame, Meka Robotics in San Francisco assembled a device with tiny, powerful, reversible electric motors to run belt-driven wheels that could swing a drumstick through a short arc. A second drumstick was embedded in the apparatus, a stick that Jason could deploy at will, but which would augment his playing with its own improvised additions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003ESnapped into a carbon-fiber sleeve and hooked up to a nearby laptop, it\u2019s an arm with a mind of its own.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe test drive\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u201cJason?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EThe name reverberated through the auditorium. Weinberg was announcing his new protege while an audience of 200 waited expectantly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EThey had come to Kennesaw State University to hear the young cyborg drummer perform as the opening act of the inaugural Atlanta Science Fest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EBut for a minute, Jason looked like he might be a no-show.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EWhile Weinberg paged the drummer, Jason was pacing and smoking on a loading dock behind the Bailey Performance Center. He was trying to find a screwdriver to get his pincer prosthetic off. And he wasn\u2019t happy: Weinberg had just told him he wanted him to stand up in front of the audience and tell his story.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EPlaying drums, even playing with just one hand, is much easier than public speaking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u201cI don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to say,\u201d he fumed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EIt had been a stressful month. Meka delivered the working arm at the end of February, less than a month before the Science Fest debut. Jason tried it on, played with it for about 30 minutes, and then Weinberg asked him to perform, right then and there, with a group of musicians for a promotional video. Terrified, Jason felt like a student driver being handed the keys to a Lamborghini. Now, once again, he was being forced out of his comfort zone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EJason stepped out on the Kennesaw stage and gave the audience a concise, unemotional account of his harrowing experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EThen Jason sat down at his black drum kit and immediately relaxed. He played a percussion duet with Sanders, and then a version of Miles Davis\u2019 classic \u201cSo What?\u201d in a combo featuring Weinberg at the piano.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EThen Weinberg explained that he had downloaded some rhythmic patterns from atom bomb scientist (and drummer) Richard Feynman, and uploaded those beats into Jason\u2019s arm. This allowed Jason to play a duet with a dead theoretical physicist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EFinally, Jason demonstrated some of the super-human qualities of the arm. It can play 20 beats a second \u2014 essentially a one-handed roll. It can play contrapuntal rhythms \u2014 say, five against eight. It\u2019s an arm that sounds like two drummers playing at once. Speed metal drummers would be envious, Jason observed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EThough his game face didn\u2019t offer a clue to his feelings, Jason was elated. After the show he pulled off the robot arm, donned his regular pincer, and posed for photographs with giddy audience members, who mobbed him in the lobby.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u201cLook at him,\u201d said friend Nic later. \u201cHe\u2019s bigger and badder than he ever was. He is a way better drummer, and a better person.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMan and machine\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EOn the wall in Jason\u2019s practice shed is a portrait painted by his tattoo artist friend, Amy Ross. It shows Jason\u2019s face, surrounded by lightning-bolt letters that spell out \u201cCheat Death.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EThe painting helps him keep things in perspective when he gets frustrated. Like when he wants to change the station on the car radio, but has to use his left hand to do it. When he tries to hold his smartphone with his pincer and cracks the screen. When he feels a tiny little itch on the end of his right thumb, which he can\u2019t scratch, because he doesn\u2019t have a right thumb any more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EHe is, after all, still here. \u201cI shouldn\u2019t be alive, honestly,\u201d he says. \u201cI mean depression sucks and everything, but feeling sorry for yourself is not going to get you anywhere.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EAnd even though it was a total hoot to become the first bionic drummer, the robot arm didn\u2019t really solve all of his problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EJason talks about the drawbacks of a $50,000 arm as he shows off his music headquarters, a small outbuilding at his mother\u2019s McDonough house, where the walls are hung with guitars and beer posters and assault rifles, and where his band, when he has one, gets together.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EThe tour is interrupted by a cellphone call. It\u2019s another journalist requesting an interview, one of dozens he\u2019d done in recent weeks. He\u2019s been on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, the Discovery Channel, a German news station and in a handful of print publications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EThis is the biggest change: Jason has become a mini-celebrity. \u201cHe\u2019s going to be in Wikipedia!\u201d marveled Maggi. \u201cI Googled his name: It\u2019s page after page!\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003ETo help capture some of that buzz, the family hired a videographer to document the Science Fest concert, and Jason has his own YouTube channel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EBut will he continue to be the robo-drummer? The possibilities are tantalizing. Shortly after his Georgia Tech video went public, Jason was contacted by Rick Allen, the drummer from the rock band Def Leppard, whose left arm was severed in a street-racing accident. Allen invited Jason to meet him backstage when his band plays Atlanta in July. One can\u2019t help but imagine a duet between the two one-handed drummers, each aided by high-tech devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EThe fact is, the expensive robo-arm does not belong to Jason, it belongs to Georgia Tech. And while he is grateful to be part of Weinberg\u2019s experiment, it\u2019s clear that Jason prefers his old drum-hand prosthetic. It may not have a mind of its own, but is lighter and more flexible. The Meka arm weighs almost two pounds, which is like holding a quart of beer at arm\u2019s length while trying to play music.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EYet the recognition he\u2019s gained may be enough to help Jason rise above the sea of other struggling musicians. The life of a musician is a challenge; for drummers the sailing is even rougher, considering the popular taste for electronic dance music and computerized beats.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EJason\u2019s high profile has already paid off in a few ways. He recently traveled to Los Angeles with his mother for an appearance on the TV show \u201cThe Doctors,\u201d where the producers promised him a bebionic mechanical hand, a $60,000 myoelectric prosthetic device.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003EMaggi Pier is convinced the best is yet to come.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve known in my heart of hearts that Jason will become something big because of this,\u201d she says, sitting on her front porch looking out over her rural property. \u201cIt\u2019s funny how God works, how you have to go through fire to get to something better.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u201cYou can\u2019t let having your arm chopped off keep you from getting on with your life.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHOW WE GOT THE STORY\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E I first met Jason Barnes at his prosthetician\u2019s office, where he was looking for a new hand. I was going to feature him in a story about the Atlanta Science Fest. Among the dozens of technological marvels revealed at the festival, his robot arm was the coolest. But after I heard his story, I realized it was a deeper, more complex story better suited to a Personal Journey. Later I met his mother, siblings and friends, heard him perform in concert and had a chance to see some of his stranger tattoos up close. (His leg-tat portrait of Michonne from \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d\u0026nbsp; is creepy and impressive.) Jason was just trying to do his job when a freak accident shoved him into the spotlight. He didn\u2019t ask for the amputation, or the attention, but he has handled both with grace.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBo Emerson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EStaff writer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003Epersonaljourneys@ajc.com\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the reporter\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBo Emerson\u003C\/strong\u003E is an Atlanta native who joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1983. He has been a feature writer for most of his AJC career, covering music, the Olympics and Billy Graham\u2019s last crusade.\u0026nbsp; He is also a musician and plays jazz trumpet with Style Points, The Lowlights, and other hackers. He is married to Maureen Downey, who covers education for the AJC.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4 class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the photographer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p10\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Tulis\u003C\/strong\u003E is an Atlanta photojournalist who spent most of his career at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before striking out on his own in 2009. He has covered the Olympics, the World Series-winning Atlanta Braves team, and traveled to South America, Europe and Africa for the newspaper. He is a member of Georgia State University\u2019s 100th Anniversary Class of 2013 and plays bass guitar with the Sagamores.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jason Barnes lost his hand, but it didn\u2019t keep him from his passion."}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-05-27 13:43:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:29","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"281091":{"id":"281091","type":"image","title":"Robotic Drumming Prosthesis 2","body":null,"created":"1449244184","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:49:44","changed":"1475894973","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:33","alt":"Robotic Drumming Prosthesis 2","file":{"fid":"198928","name":"12910156984_ae7eacd276_b.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/12910156984_ae7eacd276_b_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/12910156984_ae7eacd276_b_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":327157,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/12910156984_ae7eacd276_b_0.jpg?itok=77qI_WE1"}}},"media_ids":["281091"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/gallery\/lifestyles\/photo-different-drummer\/gCKkH\/","title":"Photo Gallery on AJC.com"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/news\/different-drummer\/nfrp5\/#51f95e45.3458751.735367","title":"Original AJC Story"},{"url":"http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/weinberg","title":"Gil Weinberg"}],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1936","name":"Center for Music Technology"},{"id":"10574","name":"Drummer"},{"id":"1939","name":"Gil Weinberg"},{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"1356","name":"robot"},{"id":"91391","name":"robot drummer"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosie Giles\u003Cbr \/\u003EIRIM Marketing Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003Ejosie@gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-8551\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"296251":{"#nid":"296251","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Arkin Debates \u201cKiller Robots\u201d at UN","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKiller robots will be debated during an informal meeting of experts at the United Nations in Geneva for four days, starting on May 13. Two robotics experts, IRIM\u2019s Ronald Arkin and Noel Sharkey, will debate the efficacy and necessity of killer robots. The meeting will be held during the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-05-09 14:44:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:05","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Georgia Power Research Center","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-27343076","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"80771","name":"Ronald Arkin; Ron Arkin; Robots; Killer Robots; Military Technology; Drones; Humanoids; Humanoid Robots; Terminator; Warfare"},{"id":"4766","name":"UN"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"295611":{"#nid":"295611","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Remembers Mike Stilman","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~mstilman\/\u0022\u003EMike Stilman\u003C\/a\u003E, recognized as an emerging leader in humanoid robotics research, died following an apparent accident at his Atlanta home on Tuesday, May 6.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStilman, who was recently awarded tenure and scheduled to be promoted to associate professor effective Aug. 16, joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2008 after receiving his Ph.D. in robotics from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are stunned by this news about our colleague and friend Mike,\u201d said Annie Ant\u00f3n, professor and chair of the School of Interactive Computing. \u201cHis promise as a brilliant young researcher was shown this year by his promotion to a tenured position and his winning of a prestigious institute-wide teaching award. This is a loss from which we will not easily recover.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn active member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robotics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)\u003C\/a\u003E at Tech, Stilman founded the Humanoid Robotics Lab, also known as \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.golems.org\/\u0022\u003EGolems.org\u003C\/a\u003E, where he led a team of graduate students and researchers on projects designed to develop \u201crobot brains,\u201d or algorithms, capable of the same level of dexterity, intelligent planning and interaction as human brains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMike was a pioneer on motion planning and humanoids,\u201d said Henrik Christensen, executive director of IRIM. \u201cHe was breaking new ground in his research, but he was also an eminent teacher. His energy was contagious, and he was always ready to push us even further. He will be sorely missed as part of the robotics and broader community at Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing, Stilman oversaw the research projects of 16 graduate students and several undergraduates. Recognized by students as a favorite in the classroom, he taught several robotics courses, including Robot Intelligence and Humanoid Robotics, and earned the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2014\/04\/14\/2014-faculty-and-staff-institute-honors-list\u0022\u003EClass of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award\u003C\/a\u003E for the past academic year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKnown for his enthusiasm for humanoids (his Georgia license plate reads \u201cGOLEM\u201d) as well as his abundance of energy, Stilman was active in the broader robotics research community. Most recently, he chaired the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.humanoids2013.com\/\u0022\u003EIEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robotics\u003C\/a\u003E in Atlanta and led Tech\u2019s participation in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStilman was among 25 researchers nationwide selected for a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/232951\u0022\u003E2013 Young Faculty Award\u003C\/a\u003E by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). Also, he received several significant research contracts involving his two humanoid robots, Golem Krang and Golem Hubo, including a $900,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to develop a \u201chybrid reasoning system\u201d for military robots. The new system could lead to robots that improvise, using objects in their environments to creatively complete complex tasks, such as climbing a chair to escape a building. In a 2012 interview about this project, Stilman said his goal was \u201cto create machines that operate like MacGyver, the \u201880s TV character.\u201d This quote marked the birth of Golem Krang\u2019s new moniker: \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/robots-using-tools-new-grant-researchers-aim-create-%E2%80%98macgyver%E2%80%99-robot\u0022\u003EMacGyverBot\u003C\/a\u003E.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a shocking loss for the College of Computing and the entire Georgia Tech robotics community,\u201d said Zvi Galil, dean of the College of Computing. \u201cMike Stilman was a brilliant and passionate young teacher and researcher with an outstanding career in front of him. On behalf of everyone in our college, I extend our deepest condolences to Mike\u2019s family. His loss will be felt within our community for a long time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESurvivors include his wife Akiko and his parents.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor Mike Stilman, recognized as an emerging leader in humanoid robotics research, died following an apparent accident at his Atlanta home on Tuesday, May 6.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Assistant Professor Mike Stilman, recognized as an emerging leader in humanoid robotics research, died following an apparent accident at his Atlanta home on Tuesday, May 6."}],"uid":"27897","created_gmt":"2014-05-07 14:53:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:22","author":"Phillip Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"295601":{"id":"295601","type":"image","title":"Mike Stilman and Golem Krang","body":null,"created":"1449244514","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:55:14","changed":"1475894995","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:55","alt":"Mike Stilman and Golem Krang","file":{"fid":"199390","name":"mike-stilman-golem-krang.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mike-stilman-golem-krang_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mike-stilman-golem-krang_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1596835,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mike-stilman-golem-krang_0.jpg?itok=YwLr-opo"}},"295771":{"id":"295771","type":"image","title":"Mike Stilman","body":null,"created":"1449244514","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:55:14","changed":"1475894995","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:55","alt":"Mike Stilman","file":{"fid":"199396","name":"mike-stilman.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mike-stilman_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mike-stilman_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":284711,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mike-stilman_0.jpg?itok=jjyJfP95"}}},"media_ids":["295601","295771"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.golems.org\/","title":"Memorial Website"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"47501","name":"Mike Stilman; MacGyver; Robot; Be More; Connie Chen; Bots"},{"id":"114601","name":"Press Release"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosie Giles\u003Cbr \/\u003EIRIM Marketing Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003Ejosie@gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-8551\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["josie@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"293301":{"#nid":"293301","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Increasingly, Robots of All Sizes Are Human Workmates","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHuman-robot collaboration is \u201cgaining an enormous amount of momentum,\u201d says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hichristensen.net\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 data-ls-seen=\u00221\u0022\u003EHenrik Christensen\u003C\/a\u003E, executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech. \u201cIn the past, robots have penetrated 10 percent of the industry. 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Except this year, it\u0027s double the \u0022robo-trouble.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the 2014\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nationalroboticsweek.org\/index.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENational Robotics Week\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInstitute for Robotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machines (IRIM)\u003C\/a\u003E has partnered with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EIEEE Spectrum\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.irobot.com\/us\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EiRobot\u003C\/a\u003E to deubt twice the robotic talent, with two brand new decks of trading cards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIRIM has designed a fresh pack of Georgia Tech Team Cards, highlighting a new lineup of innovative automatons. In addition to the 2014 Georgia Tech cards, IRIM teamed up with National Robotics Week coordinators iRobot and IEEE Spectrum to create a \u0022National Team\u0022 featuring famous robots from around the country--including IRIM\u0027s own Simon, created by Associate Professor Andrea Thomaz of the School of Interactive Computing. To see both sets, plus the original 2013 lineup of Georgia Tech robots, visit the\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/outreach\/cards\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E IRIM Robot Trading Cards webpage\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EProfessor Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics at the Georgia Tech College of Computing, touts the robot trading cards as an earmark for the extraordinary future of robotics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0022We\u0027re thrilled not only to put out our second \u0027lineup\u0027 of robotic All-Stars but also to work with iRobot and IEEE to promote a \u0027National Team\u0027 of automated heavy hitters from around the country,\u0022 says Christensen. \u0022This is a terrific way to help future roboticists learn about and appreciate all the fascinating work going on in U.S. robotics. Perhaps, 50 years from now, scientists will point back to their vintage Curi rookie cards as the spark for a lifetime of creative discovery in this critical, wide-ranging field.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe original cards were created as an avenue through which the public could connect with this dynamic and exploding field of science and engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0022One thing I learned covering the field of robotics is that people really love robots,\u0022 says Erico Guizzo, the robotics editor at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Spectrum\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and one of the creators of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotsapp.spectrum.ieee.org\/\u0022\u003EIEEE Robots for iPad app\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0022People love robot videos, robot articles, robot slideshows, and now they\u0027ll love the robot cards.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThough National Robotics Week is meant as a showcase for new robotic talent, Lisa Freed, STEM Manager for iRobot, emphasizes that education is also a primary goal of this celebration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWe at iRobot are thrilled to have worked with Georgia Tech and IEEE on this set of exciting robot trading cards,\u0022 Freed says. \u0022Our hope is that these will help to further engage young students by showcasing the diverse world of robots in a new way.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIRIM will distribute free packs of the 2014 cards to visitors touring Georgia Tech\u0027s robotics labs on April 8, as the campus plays host to hundreds of middle- and high school students visiting as part of National Robotics Week activities. Tonight, a limited number of cards will be handed out at Russ Chandler Stadium \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ramblinwreck.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/sched\/geot-m-basebl-sched.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewhen the Yellow Jackets men\u0027s baseball team takes on Georgia Southern at 6 p.m\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EFor more information, visit the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/outreach\/NRW\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENational Robotics Week at IRIM webpage\u003C\/a\u003E. 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A catalyst would have been needed, but enzymes had not yet evolved. One theory is that the catalytic minerals on a meteorite\u2019s surface could have jump-started life\u2019s first chemical reactions. But scientists need a way to directly analyze these rough, irregularly shaped surfaces. A new robotic system at Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/centerforchemicalevolution.com\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Chemical Evolution\u003C\/a\u003E could soon let scientists better simulate and analyze the chemical reactions of early Earth on the surface of real rocks to further test this theory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a proof-of-concept study, scientists selected a region for analysis on round or irregularly-shaped objects using a 3-D camera on a robotic arm, which mapped the 3-dimentional coordinates of the sample\u2019s surface. The scientists programmed the robotic arm to poke the sample with an acupuncture needle. The needle collected a small amount of material that the robot deposited in a nearby mass spectrometer, which is a powerful tool for determining a substance\u2019s chemical composition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou see the object on a monitor and then you can point and click and take a sample from a particular spot and the robot will go there,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu\/fernandez\/\u0022\u003EFacundo Fernandez\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, whose lab led the study. \u201cWe\u2019re using an acupuncture needle that will touch very carefully on the surface of the object and then the robot will turn around and put the material inside of a high resolution mass spectrometer.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was published online February 28 in the journal \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/Content\/ArticleLanding\/2014\/AN\/C4AN00277F#!divAbstract\u0022\u003EAnalyst\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, a publication of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The research will be featured on the cover of an upcoming print issue. The work was supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) grant and by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA Astrobiology Program, under the NSF Center for Chemical Evolution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMass spectrometry is a powerful tool for analyzing surface chemistry or for identifying biological samples. It\u2019s widely used in research labs across many disciplines, but samples for analysis typically have to be cleaned, carefully prepared, and in the case of rocks, cut into thin, flat samples. The new robotic system is the first report of a 3-D mass spectrometry native surface imaging experiment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOther people have used an acupuncture needle to poke a sample and then put that in mass spec, but nobody has tried to do a systematic, three-dimensional surface experiment,\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cWe are trying to push the limits.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo show that the system was capable of probing a three-dimensional object, the researchers imprinted ink patterns on the surfaces of polystyrene spheres. The team then used the robotic arm to model the surfaces, probe specific regions, and see if samples collected were sufficient for mass spectrometry analysis. The researchers were able to detect inks of different colors and create a 3-D image of the object with sufficient sensitivity for their proof-of-principle setup, Fernandez said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was the result of collaboration between Fernandez\u2019s group, which specializes in mass spectrometry, and Henrik Christensen\u2019s robotics group in the College of Computing. Christensen is the KUKA Chair of Robotics and a Distinguished Professor of Computing. He is also the executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe initial findings of this study mark a significant step toward using robots for three-dimensional surface experiments on geological material,\u201d Christensen said. \u201cWe are using the repeatability and accuracy of robots to achieve new capabilities that have numerous applications in biomedical areas such as dermatology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt doesn\u2019t happen very often that a group in mass spectrometry will have a very talented robotics group next to them,\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cIf we tried to learn the robotics on our own it could take us a decade, but for them it\u2019s something that\u2019s not that difficult.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChristensen\u2019s team loaned a Kuka KR5 sixx R650 robot to Fernandez\u2019s lab for the study. Afterwards, Fernandez\u2019s lab purchased their own robot from Universal Robots. They have also upgraded to a new mass spectrometer capable of resolution nearly eight times higher than the one used in the study. They will soon begin replicating early Earth chemistry on rocks and analyzing the reaction products with their robotic sampling system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe really want to look at rocks,\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cWe want to do reactions on rocks and granites and meteorites and then see what can be produced on the surface.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe technology could also be applied to other research fields, Fernandez said. For example, the robot-mass spec combo might be useful to dermatologists who often probe lesions on the skin, which have distinct molecular signatures depending on if the lesion is a tumor or normal skin tissue.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) (Grant number 0923179), and by the NSF and NASA Astrobiology Program under the NSF Center for Chemical Evolution (CHE-1004579). Any conclusions or opinions are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the sponsoring agencies.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Rachel V. 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For several hours he was grilled by four professors, a prerequisite before he could write his Ph.D thesis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the end, one of his inquisitors asked:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EHey, Thad, were you using your wearable computer?\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStarner, clad in a get-up that covered his left eye with wires leading down to a keyboard on his forearm, plus a satchel holding a battery pack and a measly 80 megabyte hard drive, said:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EYes.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis answer touched off a half-hour debate that almost culminated in MIT conferring its degree on \u201cThad Starner and his computer.\u201d That, sadly, did not come to pass.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt would have been hilarious,\u201d the 44-year-old, now on faculty at Georgia Tech, said in hindsight.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStarner\u2019s\u0026nbsp;work at MIT\u2019s Media Lab would later lay some of the groundwork for Google Glass. Since 2010, he been a technical lead for the project, as well as the founder and director of the Contextual Computing Group at Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe was one of the people to wear the first iteration of Google\u2019s wearable computer \u2014 which he found a distinct improvement on his earlier model. (He did, though, have to cut his shoulder-length hair in order to wear it comfortably.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/technology\/nypd-testing-google-glass-patrol-surveillance\/ndF4z\/\u0022\u003ENYPD testing Google Glass for patrol, surveillance\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe now wears the latest version, in light blue, fitted with his prescription lenses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis weekend Google is bringing the circus to town, inviting regular folks to try on Glass at the Foundry at Puritan Mill.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe two day event is the fourth stop on the search engine\u2019s campaign to make people more comfortable with the $1,500 devices. Google hopes the tour will help dismiss some of the Orwellian perceptions that have surrounded the device over the past year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGlass wearers look up into a translucent heads-up display (not unlike that of a fighter pilot), where information is displayed. The device is based on more than a half-century\u2019s worth of research, dating back to 1945.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGoogle would like you to think about Glass like this:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe cloud is forever. Your laptop is a place where you can hold information for months or years. Your smartphone is for stuff you want to keep for a week.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut wearable computing, an emerging category that includes Glass, is for right now \u2014 the Random Access Memory (RAM) of our lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGlass\u2014in fact all wearable computing\u2014is meant to function almost as an extension of the wearer\u2019s nervous system. In effect, Starner is a beta site: a trial run for of what a computer-enhanced human might look like.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe\u2019s been taking computerized notes on nearly every important conversation he\u2019s had since at least 1993; asked about something from his past, he uses Glass to retrieve the notes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(Wearers use a combination of eye and head movements and spoken commands to access information and perform other operations on the Glass computer.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe stories Starner tells about the people he\u2019s met and places he\u2019s been come out in encyclopedic bursts. No chronology. Just search-engine-like depth and speed. Jumping from one subject in 1995 to another in 2008.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the midst of talking to you, he looks up, responding to an incoming alert. He stares into space, reading material returned in his latest web search. His eyes flick upward; he\u2019s gotten an email. You get the gist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt sounds strange, but it\u2019s actually meant to be less intrusive than having the person you\u2019re talking to constantly dive into their cell phone to handle the same range of tasks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Thursday night, during a last-minute Google Glass-sponsored Design Sprint on the sixth floor of the Centergy Building in Midtown, four Google development specialists chatted about the ins-and-outs of creating software for Glass.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe gathering drew roughly a 100 Georgia Tech students, programmers and designers (some cool enough to wear both Glass and green pants).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat kind of buy-in from the development community is critical, especially if Glass is to take off. No one company has the ability to fill the needs of all mobile Internet users.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo hear the Google folks tell it, Glass is almost like a silent librarian.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt shouldn\u2019t interfere with the actions of the user. Glassware (as Google calls its brand of wearable computing apps) should only give gentle reminders and directions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo refine the user experience, Google has been testing its foray into wearable computing for the past year on Glass Explorers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s a group of early adopters who were originally chosen from a pool of roughly 150,000 applicants. Each explorer paid $1,500 for the privilege of being a test subject, a price point that is unlikely to fall anytime soon.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir ranks have grown from 8,000 at the onset to roughly 10,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201c\u2018When you concentrate on the hardware, the software you get creates bad interactions,\u201d said Starner, sitting toward the back of the room. He wore a Mandarin-style shirt buttoned to the top, a dark sports coat and black jeans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAnd when you start with the human and design the software around the person, it works very well.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESitting on a couch at the edge of the space, a millennial \u2014 a digital native, maybe a Google employee, herself \u2014 stared up into the bifurcated Glass screen, which might have been displaying an important text message, just out of her normal line of vision.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter a moment, she gracefully shifted her attention back to the presentation, but then a real interruption intruded. 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In this installment, Executive Director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robotics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInstitute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines\u0026nbsp;(IRIM)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Henrik Christensen answers questions about IRIM and also talks about\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eits efforts to support Georgia Tech faculty and students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQ: What is the\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIRIM), and what are its core research areas?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA: \u003C\/strong\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines\u003C\/a\u003E is a new IRI that integrates robotics research, education and outreach, and industry engagement across the College of Engineering, the College of Computing, the College of Sciences, and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). Our work often involves labs and individual researchers in other Georgia Tech colleges and centers, as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe conduct research in mechanisms, control, perception, artificial intelligence (AI), and human\u2013robot interaction (HRI) with a particular emphasis on human-centered robotics. The question, \u201cHow can we build robots that empower people in their daily lives, whether for service in the workplace or in the home, or for enjoyment in a leisure setting?\u201d is central to our work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing robots makes it possible to compete with low-wage manual labor in other countries. It also creates new positions that replace the dirty, dull, and dangerous jobs in U.S. factories. Additionally, robotics technologies have made it possible to improve the quality of life in an aging society by providing services that allow people to remain autonomous as they lose various functions such as mobility and memory. Finally, our research leads to new types of autonomous systems to assist first responders and soldiers during interventions by increasing the distance between responders and the immediate danger, including fires, earthquakes, and explosives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIRIM has three objectives: 1) to be the world leader in human-centered robotics, 2) to educate the best people to serve in academia and industry for next-generation robotic systems, and 3) to create new opportunities in robotics for industry and society at large, in both Georgia and beyond.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQ: A lot seems to be going on in robotics these days. Can you summarize the big trends and Georgia Tech\u2019s role with regard to those trends?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ERobotics has seen tremendous growth in the past few years. Today, robots are used to re-shore jobs to the U.S. in industries such as automotive, aerospace, and electronics manufacturing. We have also seen the development of major new services for the home \u2013 from robot vacuum cleaners to autonomous transportation and personal assistance devices. And, of course, we have seen numerous robots used in Iraq and Afghanistan to make life a little safer for our soldiers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOverall, we are seeing major growth in manufacturing, e-commerce, health care, and service industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. recently initiated a number of big programs in robotics, such as the National Robotics Initiative (NRI), which is sponsored jointly by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and NASA. The NRI was launched on the basis of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/outreach\/roadmap\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERoadmap for U.S. Robotics\u003C\/em\u003E,\u003C\/a\u003E a report initially published in 2009 and revised in 2013. Georgia Tech served as the coordinator of the development of both editions of this report. To support the NRI, a national network, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/outreach\/VO\u0022\u003ERobotics Virtual Organization\u003C\/a\u003E was founded and is managed by Tech. Consequently, Tech is seen, in many respects, as the leader for the push for new robotics initiatives in the U.S. across research, education, and the translation of results.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQ:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EHow does IRIM support research?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA:\u003C\/strong\u003E IRIM supports the research of more than 60 faculty members and 140 graduate students across various colleges and GTRI in a number of ways.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFirst, we proactively identify major new funding areas and launch seed projects that allow Georgia Tech to be competitive when calls for proposals are issued. There are remarkably few opportunities for faculty to conduct exploratory research without funding constraints, so we try to identify these new opportunities early and build up results to ensure we can successfully compete for funds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, we are developing an infrastructure that matches researchers with similar interests so, together, they have a more competitive edge when applying for major funding awards. Although our researchers are very good at pursuing grants, it is challenging, as a single applicant, to generate adequate support to build a successful proposal for major funding awards such as NSF\u2019s Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) or Science and Technology Centers (STCs) grants. For example, it is difficult for one faculty member to build a complete manufacturing facility for new robotics research in the automotive industry. However, IRIM can provide a shared infrastructure that allows multiple researchers to pursue a larger research effort in a shared space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIRIM is also committed to providing support to faculty pursuing major research opportunities through all phases of the process, from early research efforts and proposal writing to grant management and evaluation of broader impact and outreach. We would rather see our robotics faculty winning a smaller number of major grants rather than a larger number of smaller grants because comparatively, the smaller grants have too much overhead.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, IRIM facilitates opportunities for engagement in interdisciplinary activities through events such as weekly seminars and topical workshops throughout the fall and spring semesters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFinally, our One Georgia Tech approach allows external stakeholders, especially our industry partners, the chance to work with IRIM to identify the individual or lab on campus that best matches their research needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQ: How is IRIM furthering Georgia Tech\u2019s academic mission?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Over the past few years, we have built a strong \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/phdrobotics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EPh.D. program in robotics\u003C\/a\u003E in which we currently have close to 50 graduate students enrolled. These students are required to have an interdisciplinary focus and must choose coursework that involves three of five core robotics areas: mechanics, controls, perception, HRI, and AI and autonomy. Our interdisciplinary approach has proven to be very popular with students, as well as with employers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, IRIM is working on the development of a professional master\u2019s program in robotics. Georgia has a strong industry base related to robotics, and many of these companies would welcome the opportunity to have a continuing education program available locally for their employees. A professional master\u2019s program would not only allow us to attract more students to Georgia Tech, it would also build new links to industrial companies from across the state.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIRIM also actively engages with undergraduate students enrolled in participating units (Interactive Computing, Electrical \u0026amp; Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering) through coursework and undergraduate research opportunities. This summer, we are launching an NSF-sponsored Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) Program for students to spend summer on campus to conduct research with robotics faculty and graduate students. We see this program as a strong recruiting mechanism to attract the best students to Georgia Tech for graduate studies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQ:\u0026nbsp;How does IRIM support industry engagement and community outreach?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA: \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EIRIM has a proven track record of cultivating successful industry partnerships, including those with KUKA, Boeing, General Motors, BMW, PSA Peugeot Citro\u00ebn, Google, Microsoft, iRobot, and Lockheed Martin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough a strong collaboration across academic units and GTRI, IRIM offers industry partners access to a broad research portfolio, as well as an abundance of beneficial services that span from basic research opportunities to full-product development solutions. Too often, innovations are lost in the abyss between basic research and applications. IRIM has the faculty, processes, and experience to ensure these innovative projects can be successful. Few other academic or research institutions in the U.S. have a comparable scope of expertise and options available to industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor broader community outreach, IRIM works closely with organizations across Georgia and the nation, such as high schools, to provide education on the impact of robotics with regard to everyday living. We do this through initiatives such as the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robojackets.org\/first-kickoff\/\u0022\u003EFIRST Robotics Competition\u003C\/a\u003E. The undergraduate robotics club, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robojackets.org\/\u0022\u003ERoboJackets\u003C\/a\u003E, with support from IRIM, organizes the annual kickoff for this competition. In 2013, more than 1,000 high school students attended the event at Ferst Center for the Arts, and quite a few Georgia Tech students and faculty members are mentors for the FIRST team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, in an effort to stimulate general interest in STEM subjects, as well as a specific interest in robotics, IRIM organizes regular school visits across Georgia during the year. Since the launch of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/outreach\/NRW\u0022\u003ENational Robotics Week\u003C\/a\u003E in 2010, IRIM has participated annually by sponsoring an open house at Tech and conducting lab tours and demonstrations for middle and high school students. More than 400 students participated in Tech\u0027s 2013 event held on April 11, with one group traveling from Tennessee to attend. Tours offered participants a chance to learn more about 46 different research projects in 16 different robotics labs on campus. We anticipate the 2014 event will be even bigger and better than last year!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIRI Intros Q\u0026amp;A: Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYou\u2019ve probably heard that Georgia Tech has a number of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/research\/institutes\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Research Institutes\u003C\/a\u003E (IRIs) \u2013 but do you know much about them? \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis article is one in a series of Q\u0026amp;As to introduce the Tech community to the 10 IRIs and their leaders. In this installment, Executive Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robotics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInstitute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines\u0026nbsp;(IRIM)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Henrik Christensen answers questions about IRIM and also talks about\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eits efforts to support Georgia Tech faculty and students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Executive Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) Henrik Christensen answers questions about IRIM and also talks about its efforts to support Georgia Tech faculty and students."}],"uid":"27268","created_gmt":"2014-01-13 15:49:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:40","author":"Kirk 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So when a National Science Foundation grant led to development of an input device that would allow kids with disabilities to operate tablet computers, she wanted to commercialize the technology to get it into the hands of the children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut after talking with more than a hundred potential users of the device, she learned the real need was for a generic interface system able to connect a wide range of input devices \u2013 big button switches, joysticks, sip-and-puff straws and others \u2013 to the tablet computers. And it turned out that the market was much larger than Howard imagined, extending to adults with disabilities and potentially even persons with Alzheimer\u2019s.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA professor in the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=135\u0022\u003EHoward\u003C\/a\u003E has now launched a company, Zyrobotics, to commercialize the device, and a prototype has already been developed. The company, run by a former graduate student, won\u2019t be the next IBM, but it will help disabled children do what all kids want to do: play video games and interact with computers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistance with refining the device came through the Innovation Corps (I-Corps\u2122), a National Science Foundation program that helps NSF-funded researchers learn about starting up a company \u2013 and by talking to potential customers, determine whether there\u2019s really a market for what they\u2019ve developed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWithout I-Corps, I wouldn\u2019t have thought to pursue this,\u201d said Howard, who holds the title of Motorola Foundation Professor. \u201cThey showed us how to talk about the technology in terms that the general public could understand. And I-Corps made us take a step back and ask if what we had developed was really of value to potential customers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EI-Corps Innovation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA dozen Georgia Tech teams \u2013 each composed of a faculty member, entrepreneurial lead and industry mentor \u2013 have now gone through the six-week I-Corps program. About a third of them have, like Howard, revised their plans and decided to move forward with forming a company and creating a product based on the results of NSF-supported research. The program is part of a national effort to turn research discoveries into new companies and new products, supporting economic development and building understanding of what it means to be an entrepreneur.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThrough the Innovation Corps, NSF seeks to accelerate the development of new technologies, products and processes that arise from fundamental research,\u201d said Rathindra (Babu) DasGupta, the NSF\u2019s program director for I-Corps. \u201cThe goals of I-Corps are to spur translation of fundamental research, to encourage collaboration between academia and industry, and to train students to understand innovation and entrepreneurship.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program provides mentoring and funding designed to move the results of NSF-supported research through the early stages of company formation. \u201cNSF investments strategically strengthen the nation\u2019s innovation ecosystem by addressing the challenges inherent in the early stages of the innovation process,\u201d DasGupta added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EI-Corps at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause of its long experience with forming companies from university research, in July 2012 Georgia Tech was selected to be among the first institutions to become \u201dnodes\u201d teaching the I-Corps curriculum. The program is basically a boot camp that shows what it\u2019s like to form a startup company \u2013 and ensures that there\u2019s a real market for a fledgling company\u2019s proposed product. About 25 teams from universities around the country participate each time the program is taught at one of the I-Corps nodes, including Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe I-Corps process is very similar to the scientific method, which scientists and engineers are familiar with,\u201d explained Keith McGreggor, who directs the I-Corps program at Georgia Tech. \u201cWe use this process to turn fiction \u2013 what you might think is true \u2013 into fact by doing experiments and testing hypotheses in the real world with customers instead of in the laboratory.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI-Corps puts faculty members and graduate students through a pressure cooker environment that simulates a real startup. Not everyone is cut out for entrepreneurship, McGreggor noted. Faculty members often have a skill set \u2013 collaborating with other researchers, teaching students and publishing papers \u2013 that\u2019s different from the skills needed to produce products and services that non-researchers are willing to buy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe centerpiece of the program is \u201ccustomer discovery\u201d in which the teams must talk with at least 100 potential customers about their proposed product. This interaction with the real world almost inevitably leads to what I-Corps calls \u201cthe pivot,\u201d which occurs when the teams, based on the customer feedback, realize they\u2019ve been developing a product for which there isn\u2019t a market. In many cases, that realization leads to new, and successful, directions for the technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEveryone starts out with one idea about what they want to do, and they almost always change to something else that they are also capable of doing,\u201d McGreggor said. \u201cIt can be difficult for people to switch gears, but what\u2019s beautiful about this program is that they do switch.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the end of the six weeks, the teams decide whether or not to go forward with their idea. For Georgia Tech teams, fledgling companies that emerge from the process can join \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/venturelab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EVentureLab\u003C\/a\u003E, a program that helps researchers form companies, create prototypes, bring in experienced management and obtain early-stage funding. VentureLab companies can go on to be members of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.atdc.org\/\u0022\u003EAdvanced Technology Development Center\u003C\/a\u003E (ATDC), Georgia Tech\u2019s accelerator program that helps entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarketing MOFs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/walton\u0022\u003EKrista Walton\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/sholl\u0022\u003EDavid Sholl\u003C\/a\u003E used the I-Corps process to confirm the market need for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a new materials technology with a broad range of potential market applications. With NSF support, the researchers had developed a way to scale up the synthesis of MOFs, a class of nanomaterials, but weren\u2019t sure what direction to take next \u2013 a classic problem for technologies that have many possible applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy talking with more than 100 potential customers, we went through numerous refinements in our understanding of how we can create a sustainable business with our technology,\u201d said Sholl, who is now chair of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cWe saw over and over again that the issues that obsess researchers doing fundamental research and the issues that matter to customers are often not the same.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETalking with the customers required a large investment of time, but Sholl \u2013 who is also a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Energy Sustainability \u2013 was pleased with the level of interest in the technology. The potential customers he and Walton interviewed also identified applications they had never considered.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a result of the process, Sholl and Walton \u2013 an associate professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering \u2013 formed Inmondo Tech, and are working with several initial customers to develop a first product.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESmartphone Questions\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/people\/gregory-abowd\u0022\u003EGregory Abowd\u003C\/a\u003E, the benefits of I-Corps were different. A serial entrepreneur with a record of launching successful companies, Abowd felt he knew how to commercialize technology he developed that helps connect young patients with their doctors through handheld devices. But he wanted to apply I-Corps\u2019 systematic process to starting up a new company.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve had some successful and unsuccessful startup efforts, but I really didn\u2019t understand what were the important elements of the successful ones,\u201d said Abowd, who is a Regents\u2019 and Distinguished Professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cI was intrigued with the idea of being a little more structured going into this one, because I had learned there are an infinite number of ways to make mistakes in the business world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe company, established as L.S.Q. LLC in Georgia, will provide a way to ask questions of smartphone users at times when they aren\u2019t actively using their handheld devices. Building on the original purpose of the technology, which was to boost interaction with children who have chronic diseases, Abowd sees many possible applications, including surveys designed for the small screens of mobile devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ll ask questions at a point when people are interacting with their phones, but at a point of pause,\u201d he explained. Abowd has assembled a team and is talking with potential customers. He expects to form a joint venture with a market research firm in early 2014 and develop a product quickly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice to Others\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat advice do the teams give faculty members and graduate students thinking about the I-Corps opportunity?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is a growing network to help with commercialization, both at Georgia Tech and around the country,\u201d noted Abowd. \u201cA successful startup requires a lot of effort, and it\u2019s more than a full-time job. I-Corps gives you a six-week exposure to help you determine whether this is right for you.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI-Corps requires a large investment of time, something that can be difficult if faculty members aren\u2019t prepared for it, Howard noted. To be successful, at least one member of the team has to be available nearly full-time during the six-week program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI would recommend this 100 percent, and have already talked with other faculty members about I-Corps,\u201d she said. \u201cThis process is very different from what we normally do in research and teaching, and it has changed the way I think about what I do. It was a great experience for us.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI-Corps teams follow a rigorous application process designed to determine whether team members are truly committed to launching and building a startup, McGreggor noted. That can be daunting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI-Corps simulates a startup, so it puts a lot of heat on the team to see if they are going to stay together when they get into a company,\u201d he said. \u201cWe challenge the researchers in ways that they have probably not been challenged since they were graduate students. It is exquisitely uncomfortable for some people.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBroader Impacts\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI-Corps has also changed the way that Georgia Tech approaches startup companies. Customer discovery and early pivoting to serve the marketplace, for instance, are now at the core of Georgia Tech\u2019s VentureLab and Flashpoint programs, which serve all researchers regardless of their funding sources, McGreggor said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFaculty members are forced to look into the face of a world that may not want what they have produced,\u201d McGreggor said. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve learned is that when entrepreneurs get it wrong, it\u2019s usually because they are building something that nobody really wants. This has really changed our approach to doing things in VentureLab.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe I-Corps approach has also changed the role of graduate students in the startup process, and opened it more to junior faculty members. In the past, VentureLab had assumed that only tenured faculty would have the time and flexibility to commit to a startup. Now, he says, the program makes no distinction among researchers, and realizes that the graduate students involved in developing a technology may be the right team members to go forward as part of the new company. That makes creating a startup a real alternative to traditional post-graduation opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond the new enterprises begun, the I-Corps program is having a larger impact on the universities whose faculty members have participated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAdditional successes of the program have been far-reaching,\u201d said the NSF\u2019s DasGupta. \u201cFaculty are taking what they learned in I-Corps about innovation and technology transfer back to their universities and training their students differently. The participation of students and post-docs in I-Corps has also had favorable impacts: they report that their employability is enhanced by their participating in I-Corps.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program was launched in 2011, and continues to evolve as NSF tracks the results. In addition to its teams of researchers, entrepreneurs and mentors, I-Corps is also focusing on nodes and sites to bring the concepts to a larger group of NSF researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe continue to explore ways to expand the program\u2019s impact nationally, and at the state and local levels,\u201d DasGupta added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30332-0181\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-894-6986) or Brett Israel (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebrett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-385-1933).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech was one of the first nodes in the NSF\u0027s I-Corps program, which helps faculty members commercialize research discoveries. 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