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That means, Egerstedt says, that the project might entice everyone from middle school science students to professors like him and his collaborators.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAaron Ames, an associate professor in ECE and the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, is one of those collaborators. Like Egerstedt, he\u2019s frustrated that so few people have access to pricey hardware \u2013 the linchpin behind most robotics research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat\u2019s the wall that prevents most academic work from translating to the commercial domain to the everyday-life domain,\u201d Ames says, \u201cand this will break that open. This will tear down that wall.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong with Ames, Egerstedt also enlisted the help of Professors Raheem Beyah (of ECE), and Eric Feron (from the School of Aerospace Engineering), and Blair MacIntyre (from the School of Interactive Computing) to make the idea a reality. The National Science Foundation awarded the team $2.5a million dollars to kick-start the work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA few Ph.D. students are also helping outinvolved. Chief among them is Daniel Pickem, who is studying robotic self-assembly under Egerstedt and ECE Professor Jeff Shamma. He shares Egerstedt\u2019s vision for what the Robotarium could become.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a powerful paradigm: maintenance-free, hassle-free robotics,\u201d Pickem says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Long View\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERight now, Pickem spends many of his days debugging code and tweaking the boards of GRITSBots, tiny robots designed in Egerstedt\u2019s Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab. These creatures live on a large table that is, in a way, the first incarnation of the Robotarium.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIts gleaming white surface makes it resemble an air hockey table. But there\u2019s important work being done here: The GRITSBots can move and interact with each other based on remote users\u2019 controls. The table offers a glimpse of the Robotarium in miniature, and it allows Egerstedt and his colleagues to anticipate potential problems with a facility that\u2019s accessible to anyone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA key concern is safety, which is being overseen by Ames.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe first thing that\u2019s going to happen when you open it to the public is someone is going to try to break it,\u201d he acknowledges. He\u2019s already developed an algorithm to prevent robots from colliding with each other, but there\u2019s a lot more work to come.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday, there is just the white table. Egerstedt estimates another three to five years could pass before the full Robotarium is complete.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe likes taking the long view. Though he is known for championing novel \u2013 and sometimes untested \u2013 ways to make robotics more accessible, his ideas are informed by his past experiences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the professor of one of Georgia Tech\u2019s early massive open online courses (MOOCs), he aimed to make advanced controls coursework available to anyone. After that, he contemplated using the principles of the MOOC for larger projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was thinking: What does a MOOC look like in research?\u201d he says. (A robot zoo, apparently.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Crystal Cathedral\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what\u2019s in it for Georgia Tech and the College of Engineering? A lot of exposure, of course, but also the chance to be at the vanguard of robotics. 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Researchers from other universities, as well as middle and high school students, will schedule experiments, upload their own programming code, watch the robots in real-time via streamed video feeds and receive scientific data demonstrating the results.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u201cRobotarium\u201d is expected to house up to 100 ground and aerial swarm robots. No other university has a similar facility.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBuilding and maintaining a world-class, multi-robot lab is too expensive for a large number of roboticists and budding roboticists. This creates a steep barrier to entry into our field,\u201d said Magnus Egerstedt, Schlumberger Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). \u201cWe need to provide more access to more people in order to continue creating robot-assisted technologies. The Robotarium will allow that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt will lead the project, which includes several Georgia Tech faculty members who will also have access to the facility for their own multidisciplinary experiments and curriculum. The team has already created a mini-version of the Robotarium. Georgia Tech graduate students used it to complete their robotics projects. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, successfully uploaded code during a recent test session.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccess is only one goal of the project. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA research instrument like the Robotarium has the potential to build stronger networks of collaborative research, making the whole significantly larger than the sum of its parts,\u201d he said. \u201cThe end result has the potential to show how remote access instruments can be structured in other areas beyond robotics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Foundation is helping to fund the project with two grants totaling $2.5 million. Georgia Tech will transform an existing classroom into the new lab. Georgia Tech will use the other award to help create safe and secure open-access systems for the remote lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe first thing that\u2019s going to happen when you open it to the public is someone is going to try to break it,\u201d said Aaron Ames, an associate professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and ECE who\u2019s involved in the project. Ames has already developed an algorithm to prevent robots from colliding with each other.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Robotarium is expected to be fully operational in 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a room where robots are always roaming around,\u201d said Egerstedt. \u201cGeorgia Tech students will be able to hang out and watch research that is happening across the country and beyond.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through grant numbers ECCS-1531195 and CNS 1544332. 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The fellows will spend a portion of this summer on-site at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) pursuing research collaborations that advance the frontiers of space science and space technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe CSTAR Summer Fellows@JPL program is designed to promote and encourage collaboration between Georgia Tech and JPL, focusing on research collaborations in science and engineering fields of mutual interest. Prospective proposers are encouraged to submit research proposals that align with CSTAR research thrusts, identify JPL interests and collaborators, and describe the downstream impact of the summer collaborations. The yearly proposal cycle includes a November proposal call, December proposal submission, and January proposal selection. All Georgia Tech academic faculty are eligible to apply.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese competitively awarded research grants build on the strengths of both JPL and Georgia Tech,\u201d said Georgia Tech Professor and CSTAR Director Robert Braun. \u201cThey are designed to foster future research collaborations between these two institutions, and are well aligned with our nation\u2019s future needs in space science and space technology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe faculty selected for the 2016 Summer Fellows@JPL program and their research topics are as follows:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Costello (AE):\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Robotic Legged Landing Gear for Spacecraft\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGlenn Lightsey (AE):\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Design Drivers and Solutions for Reliable Small Satellite Science Missions\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJulian Rimoli (AE):\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cem\u003ETensegrity Structures for Planetary Landing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Steffes (ECE):\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Improved Radio Occultation Retrievals Of Terrestrial Atmospheric Structure And Composition\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPanos Tsiotras (AE):\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Covariance Steering Theory for Precise GN\u0026amp;C Terrain Relative Navigation during Entry, Descent and Landing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The CSTAR Summer Fellows@JPL program provides an excellent opportunity to connect leading Georgia Tech faculty with researchers at JPL,\u201d said JPL Chief Scientist Daniel McCleese. \u201cThe exciting projects chosen this year will open up new collaborations, and enhance both JPL and Georgia Tech\u0027s space science and engineering efforts.\u201d In 2012 Georgia Tech and JPL entered into a strategic partnership designed to promote and encourage collaboration between the institutions. 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It builds upon Riedl\u2019s prior research \u2013 the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2015\/09\/01\/georgia-tech-uses-artificial-intelligence-crowdsource-interactive-fiction\u0022\u003EScheherazade system\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013 which demonstrated how artificial intelligence can gather a correct sequence of actions by crowdsourcing story plots from the Internet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EScheherazade learns what is a normal or \u201ccorrect\u201d plot graph. It then passes that data structure along to Quixote, which converts it into a \u201creward signal\u201d that reinforces certain behaviors and punishes other behaviors during trial-and-error learning. 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For example, students consistently ask where they can find particular assignments and readings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJill wasn\u2019t very good for the first few weeks after she started in January, often giving odd and irrelevant answers. Her responses were posted in a forum that wasn\u2019t visible to students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cInitially her answers weren\u0027t good enough because she would get stuck on keywords,\u201d said Lalith Polepeddi, one of the graduate students who co-developed the virtual TA. \u201cFor example, a student asked about organizing a meet-up to go over video lessons with others, and Jill gave an answer referencing a textbook that could supplement the video lessons \u2014 same keywords \u2014 but different context. So we learned from mistakes like this one, and gradually made Jill smarter.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter some tinkering by the research team, Jill found her groove and soon was answering questions with 97 percent certainty. When she did, the human TAs would upload her responses to the students. By the end of March, Jill didn\u2019t need any assistance: She wrote the class directly if she was 97 percent positive her answer was correct.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe students, who were studying artificial intelligence, were unknowingly interacting with it. Goel didn\u2019t inform them about Jill\u0027s true identity until April 26. The student response was uniformly\u0026nbsp;positive. One admitted her mind was blown. Another asked if Jill could \u201ccome out and play.\u201d Since then some students have organized a KBAI alumni forum to learn about new developments with Jill after the class ends, and another group of students has launched an open source project to replicate her.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBack in February, student Tyson Bailey began to wonder if Jill was a computer and posted his suspicions on Piazza.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe were taking an AI course, so I had to imagine that it was possible there might be an AI lurking around,\u201d said Bailey, who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. \u201cThen again, I asked Dr. Goel if he was a computer in one of my first email interactions with him. I think it\u2019s a great idea and hope that they continue to improve it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJill ended the semester able to answer many routine questions asked. She\u2019ll return \u2014with a different name \u2014 next semester. 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The approach could help make self-driving cars of the future safer under hazardous road conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers from Georgia Tech\u2019s Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE) and the School of Interactive Computing (IC) have assessed the new technology by racing, sliding, and jumping one-fifth-scale, fully autonomous auto-rally cars at the equivalent of 90 mph. The technique uses advanced algorithms and onboard computing, in concert with installed sensing devices, to increase vehicular stability while maintaining performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work, tested at the Georgia Tech Autonomous Racing Facility, is sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Office. 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The Georgia Tech method \u2013 known as model predictive path integral control (MPPI) \u2013 was developed specifically to address the non-linear dynamics involved in controlling a vehicle near its friction limits. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUtilizing Advanced Concepts\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAggressive driving in a robotic vehicle \u2013 maneuvering at the edge \u2013 is a unique control problem involving a highly complex system,\u201d said Evangelos Theodorou, an AE assistant professor who is leading the project. \u201cHowever, by merging statistical physics with control theory, and utilizing leading-edge computation, we can create a new perspective, a new framework, for control of autonomous systems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers used a stochastic trajectory-optimization capability, based on a path-integral approach, to create their MPPI control algorithm, Theodorou explained. 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It\u2019s regarded as the first technology to carry out this computationally demanding task; in the past, optimal- control data inputs could not be processed in real time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFully Autonomous Vehicles\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers\u2019 two auto-rally vehicles \u2013 custom built by the team \u2013 utilize special electric motors to achieve the right balance between weight and power. The cars carry a motherboard with a quad-core processor, a potent GPU, and a battery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach vehicle also has two forward-facing cameras, an inertial measurement unit, and a GPS receiver, along with sophisticated wheel-speed sensors. The power, navigation, and computation equipment is housed in a rugged aluminum enclosure able to withstand violent rollovers. Each vehicle weighs about 48 pounds and is about three feet long.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese rolling robots are able to test the team\u2019s control algorithms without any need for off-vehicle devices or computation, except for a nearby GPS receiver. The onboard GPU lets the MPPI algorithm sample more than 2,500, 2.5-second-long trajectories in under 1\/60 of a second.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn important aspect in the team\u2019s autonomous-control approach centers on the concept of \u201ccosts\u201d \u2013 key elements of system functionality. Several cost components must be carefully matched to achieve optimal performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the case of the Georgia Tech vehicles, the costs consist of three main areas: the cost for staying on the track, the cost for achieving a desired velocity, and the cost of the control system. A sideslip-angle cost was also added to improve vehicle stability.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe cost approach is important to enabling a robotic vehicle to maximize speed while staying under control, explained James Rehg, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing who is collaborating with Theodorou and Tsiotras.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s a complex balancing act, Rehg said. 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Hammond III would watch the \u003Cem\u003ETransformers\u003C\/em\u003E animated series or, if that wasn\u2019t on, he\u2019d watch \u003Cem\u003EChallenge of the GoBots\u003C\/em\u003E. While both programs were created to help toy companies sell toys (Transformers and GoBots), they managed to do something else for Hammond. They nurtured his budding interest in robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cEver since I was a kid I\u2019ve been into robotics, and these shows featured robots that could change their form, which I thought was very cool,\u201d says Hammond, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cSo I\u2019ve always been interested in devices like these, that could change their form or function to fit the needs of the environment,\u201d adds Hammond, who recently joined the multidisciplinary team of researchers at the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe overarching goal of his research is right there in the name of the lab he helms: the Adaptive Robotic Manipulation Lab.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThe inspiration for most of my research is getting robots involved in activities of daily life, creating a collaborative environment for humans and robots,\u201d says Hammond. \u201cYou\u2019ve seen a lot of the robots that are available commercially \u2013 robots that sweep floors for example, robots that are very good at doing a certain job very precisely, quickly and reliably, over and over again for tens of thousands of cycles.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EInstead, Hammond is interested in building machines capable of performing complex tasks in concert with their human hosts, wearable devices that are \u201cadaptive and flexible, in direct contact with humans, capable of augmenting human motion.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ESo Hammond shows off a hand-like device with two fingers and a thumb, soft to the touch, like skin \u2013 silicone digits formed in a 3D printed mold, actuated through pneumatic means via little CO2 cartridges.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThis is biologically inspired,\u201d Hammond says. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a little safer than the rigid, electrically-powered devices. This mechanical hand won\u2019t smash the desk if you move too quickly. It\u2019s powered by air and is mechanically compliant, so it\u2019s not going to damage the wearer or the environment. It\u2019s too soft to do that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe replacement hand can grasp a coffee cup or a bottle of water, open a door, and what it may lack in precision (at this point), it makes up for in utility and cost. One of these devices costs less than $100 to make.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cI think the economy of this device, in general, is closely intertwined with the proliferation of self-robotic devices,\u201d Hammond says. \u201cSoft robotics is much more economical now that so many researchers and companies are doing it. Prices have fallen and there\u2019s more competition.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EHammond demonstrates the hand and its pneumatic actuator. It\u2019s a self-attaching device \u2013 you can attach it using one able arm. He lowers air pressure or changes the air distribution to control how the fingers bend and move. And though Hammond isn\u2019t saying his robotic hand is a full-on replacement for your real hand, it does offer the user some options that Mother Nature can\u2019t.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThese are modular components,\u201d he says. \u201cSo for example, if I wanted to have longer fingers, I could very easily swap these out with longer fingers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EHammond earned his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon, where he worked and studied in the department of mechanical engineering and The Robotics Institute. He did his postdoctoral work at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where leading researchers are directing a number of projects aimed at giving humans extra capability.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ERobotics researchers have coined a phrase, \u201csupernumerary robotics.\u201d Imagine having extra limbs (supernumerary robotic limbs, or SLRs), which are not designed to replace a missing limb, but to augment what you have.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThey\u2019re still using rigid linkages and electric motors for most of the work, because these are very well known components, easy to characterize and control,\u201d says Hammond, who arrived at Georgia Tech in time for last fall semester.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EBy contrast, he says, \u201csoft robotics is a very nascent field. 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That\u2019s one conclusion from a new study of African mudskipper fish and a robot modeled on the animal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnimals analogous to the mudskipper would have used modified fins to move around on flat surfaces, but for climbing sandy slopes, the animals could have benefitted from using their tails to propel themselves forward, the researchers found. Results of the study, reported July 8 in the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E, could help designers create amphibious robots able to move across granular surfaces more efficiently \u2013 and with less likelihood of getting stuck in the mud.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office and the Army Research Laboratory, the project involved a multidisciplinary team of physicists, biologists and roboticists from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Clemson University and Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to a detailed study of the mudskipper and development of a robot model that used the animal\u2019s locomotion techniques, the study also examined flow and drag conditions in representative granular materials, and applied a mathematical model incorporating new physics based on the drag research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMost robots have trouble moving on terrain that includes sandy slopes,\u201d said Dan Goldman, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Physics. \u201cWe noted that not only did the mudskippers use their limbs to propel themselves in a kind of crutching motion on sand and sandy slopes, but that when the going got tough, they used their tails in concert with limb propulsion to ascend a slope. Our robot model was only able to climb sandy slopes when it similarly used its tail in coordination with its appendages.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBased on fossil records, scientists have long studied how early land animals may have gotten around, and the new study suggests their tails \u2013 which played a key role in swimming as fish \u2013 may have helped supplement the work of fins, especially on sloping granular surfaces such as beaches and mudflats.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe were interested in examining one of the most important evolutionary events in our history as animals: the transition from living in water to living on land,\u201d said Richard Blob, alumni distinguished professor of biological sciences at Clemson University. \u201cBecause of the focus on limbs, the role of the tail may not have been considered very strongly in the past. In some ways, it was hiding in plain sight. Some of the features that the animals used were new, such as limbs, but some of them were existing features that they simply co-opted to allow them to move into a new habitat.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith Ph.D. student Sandy Kawano, now a researcher at the National Institute for \u0026nbsp;Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Blob\u2019s lab recorded how the mudskippers (\u003Cem\u003EPeriopthalmus barbaratus\u003C\/em\u003E) moved on a variety of loose surfaces, providing data and video to Goldman\u2019s laboratory. The small fish, which uses its front fins and tail to move on land, lives in tidal areas near shore, spending time in the water and on sandy and muddy surfaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBenjamin McInroe was a Georgia Tech undergraduate when he analyzed the mudskipper data provided by the Clemson team. He applied the principles to a robot model known as MuddyBot that has two limbs and a powerful tail, with motion provided by electric motors. Information from both the mudskipper and robotic studies were also factored into a mathematical model provided by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe used three complementary approaches,\u201d said McInroe, who is a now a Ph.D. student at the University of California Berkeley. \u201cThe fish provided a morphological, functional model of these early walkers. With the robot, we are able to simplify the complexity of the mudskipper and by varying the parameters, understand the physical mechanisms of what was happening. With the mathematical model and its simulations, we were able to understand the physics behind what was going on.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoth the mudskippers and the robot moved by lifting themselves up to reduce drag on their bodies, and both needed a kick from their tails to climb 20-degree sandy slopes. Using their \u201cfins\u201d alone, both struggled to climb slopes and often slid backward if they didn\u2019t use their tails, McInroe noted. Early land animals likely didn\u2019t have precise control over their limbs, and the tail may have compensated for that limitation, helping the animals ascend sandy slopes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Carnegie Mellon University researchers, who have worked with Goldman on relating the locomotion of other animals to robots, demonstrated that theoretical models developed to describe the complex motion of robots can also be used to understand locomotion in the natural world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur computer modeling tools allow us to visualize, and therefore better understand, how the mudskipper incorporates its tail and flipper motions to locomote,\u201d said Howie Choset, a professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. \u201cThis work also will advance robotics in those cases where a robot needs to surmount challenging terrains with various inclinations.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe model was based on a framework proposed to broadly understand locomotion by physicist Frank Wilczek \u2013 a Nobel Prize winner \u2013 and his then student Alfred Shapere in the 1980s. The so-called \u201cgeometric mechanics\u201d approach to locomotion of human-made devices (like satellites) was largely developed by engineers, including those in Choset\u2019s group. To provide force relationships as inputs to the mudskipper robot model, Georgia Tech postdoctoral fellow Jennifer Rieser and Georgia Tech graduate student Perrin Schiebel measured drag in inclined granular materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInformation from the study could help in the design of robots that may need to move on surfaces such as sand that flows around limbs, said Goldman. Such flow of the substrate can impede motion, depending on the shape of the appendage entering the sand and the type of motion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut the study\u2019s most significant impact may be to provide new insights into how vertebrates made the transition from water to land.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to ultimately know how natural selection can act to modify structures already present in organisms to allow for locomotion in a fundamentally different environment,\u201d Goldman said. \u201cSwimming and walking on land are fundamentally different, yet these early animals had to make the transition.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project also represents a combination of physics, biology and engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cProfessor Goldman and his collaborators are combining physics and engineering prototyping approaches to understand the physical principles that allow animals to move in different environments,\u201d said Krastan Blagoev, program director in the National Science Foundation\u2019s Division of Physics. \u201cThis novel approach to living organisms promises to bring to biological sciences higher predictive power and at the same time uncover engineering principles that we have never imagined before.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to those already mentioned, the project also included co-first author Henry Astley, a Georgia Tech postdoctoral researcher when the project was done, and Chaohui Gong, a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the NSF Physics of Living Systems program through grants PHY-1205878, PHY-1150760, CMMI-1361778; the Army Research Office through grant W911NF-11-1-0514, and the Army Research Laboratory MAST CTA program. 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DURUS had earned its new pair of shoes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFlat-footed robots demonstrated that walking was possible,\u201d said Ames. \u201cBut they\u2019re a starting point, like a propeller-powered airplane. It gets the job done, but it\u2019s not a jet engine. We want to build something better, something that can walk up and down stairs or run across a field.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe adds these advances have the potential to usher in the next generation of robotic assistive devices like prostheses and exoskeletons that can enable the mobility-impaired to walk with ease.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe student team was led by graduate student Jake Reher. The shoes were created by another graduate student, Eric Ambrose. 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Kelly, III"}],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"115691","name":"Clinton Kelly"},{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"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 Mgr.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:josie@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejosie@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"556631":{"#nid":"556631","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Egerstedt Named New Executive Dir. of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022intro-text\u0022\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology today announced the appointment of Magnus Egerstedt as the new executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt is the Schlumberger Professor in the College of Engineering\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, where he serves as associate chair for Research and External Affairs. He has been a member of the faculty since 2001, and leads the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (GRITS Lab), which focuses research on control and coordination of complex networks such as multi-robot systems, mobile-sensor networks, and cyber-physical systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are excited to welcome Magnus into the role of executive director for IRIM.\u0026nbsp;His enthusiasm and vision, coupled with his leadership ability and passion to support faculty, make him the obvious choice to serve in the role,\u201d said Stephen E. Cross, executive vice president for Research. \u201cHis work over the years has served to enhance Tech\u2019s reputation as a thought leader in the robotics and intelligent machines space.\u0026nbsp;I look forward to working with him.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am honored to have the opportunity to serve as the next executive director of IRIM,\u201d Egerstedt said. \u201cIRIM has a bright future as a research leader and industry partner, and I am looking forward to charting the course for the next phase of robotics at Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt emerged as the top candidate from an internal search to replace the founding executive director of IRIM, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/christensen\u0022\u003EHenrik I. Christensen\u003C\/a\u003E, who is moving to the University of California, San Diego to serve as director of the newly formed Contextual Robotics Institute\u0026nbsp;and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am very pleased to learn the next IRIM executive director will be Magnus,\u201d Christensen said. \u201cI have known him since we were both in Stockholm. He is an excellent researcher and a highly respected member of the research community. He has all the right skills to secure the continued growth of the robotics efforts at Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt will begin his duties at IRIM on Aug. 1, and will continue to lead the GRITS Lab in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in philosophy from Stockholm University and master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in engineering physics and applied mathematics, respectively, from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. After completing his Ph.D., Egerstedt was a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHenrik helped build a world-class robotics program at Tech. Magnus has both the leadership skills and outstanding research in this area to continue IRIM\u2019s growth and impact on the robotics field,\u201d said Gary S. May, Southern Company Chair and dean of the College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaunched as an Interdisciplinary Research Institute in fall 2013, the\u0026nbsp;Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines was built upon foundational work developed over the previous seven years in the former Robotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machines Center at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIRIM brings together\u0026nbsp;robotics researchers from across campus\u2014spanning colleges, departments,\u0026nbsp;and individual labs\u2014to create new collaborative opportunities for faculty, strengthen partnerships with industry and government,\u0026nbsp;and maximize the societal impact of the transformative robotics research conducted at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELearn more at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robotics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.robotics.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022intro-text\u0022\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology today announced the appointment of Magnus Egerstedt as the new executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Egerstedt will replace the founding executive director of IRIM, Henrik I. Christensen, who is moving to the University of California, San Diego."}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2016-07-29 11:36:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:12","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"556671":{"id":"556671","type":"image","title":"Magnus Egerstedt Again","body":null,"created":"1469808608","gmt_created":"2016-07-29 16:10:08","changed":"1475895355","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:55","alt":"Magnus Egerstedt Again","file":{"fid":"206637","name":"magnus_with_robot_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/magnus_with_robot_2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/magnus_with_robot_2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":848556,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/magnus_with_robot_2.jpg?itok=4cLPYrsW"}},"224041":{"id":"224041","type":"image","title":"Magnus Egerstedt","body":null,"created":"1449243551","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:39:11","changed":"1475894896","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:16","alt":"Magnus Egerstedt","file":{"fid":"197376","name":"egerstedtheadshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/egerstedtheadshot_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/egerstedtheadshot_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":116278,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/egerstedtheadshot_0.jpg?itok=k7SfLRrp"}},"348951":{"id":"348951","type":"image","title":"Swarm robotics - Magnus Egerstedt","body":null,"created":"1449245682","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:14:42","changed":"1475895073","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:13","alt":"Swarm robotics - Magnus Egerstedt","file":{"fid":"201005","name":"swarm-robots-cover.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/swarm-robots-cover_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/swarm-robots-cover_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1494043,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/swarm-robots-cover_0.jpg?itok=4A1MjMho"}}},"media_ids":["556671","224041","348951"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for Robotics \u0026 Intelligent Machines"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/magnus-egerstedt-0","title":"Magnus Egerstedt"}],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"78861","name":"Henrik I. 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\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/chernova\u0022\u003ESonia Chernova\u003C\/a\u003E is one of eight university researchers nationwide selected by NASA to receive the 2016\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press\/2014\/july\/nasa-announces-early-career-faculty-space-tech-research-grants\/\u0022\u003EEarly Career Faculty Award\u003C\/a\u003E (ECF) in the Space Technology Research Grants program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe grants, worth up to $200,000 per year over three years, are awarded to outstanding early career faculty focused on space technology development addressing critical needs in the U.S. space program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChernova,\u0026nbsp;an assistant professor of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, received the award for her proposal to develop interactive robotic systems that enable co-located astronauts and Earth-based NASA operators to refine and adapt the behavior of a robot during deployment in a way that maximizes task efficiency and human-robot team operation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs NASA prepares future crewed low-Earth orbit, lunar, and Mars-based deployments, the award provides Chernova with funding to develop techniques for execution of repetitive, routine, and potentially hazardous tasks by robots.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI hope that my research will enable a robot to detect when unexpected operating conditions are encountered, request help from co-located crew members or remote ground control operators, as appropriate, and refine its operating procedures to improve future task execution and the long-term autonomy of the system,\u201d Chernova said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrent practices in deploying robotic space systems are limited to manual teleoperation of robots by crews in co-located settings, and the use of carefully handcrafted structured control sequences from ground control. Both approaches are costly in terms of crew time and effort and are not scalable for long-term, co-robot deployments.\u0026nbsp;By enabling the robots to leverage the inputs obtained from human operators, Chernova\u2019s work aims to facilitate the automation of many routine tasks, thereby reducing the\u0026nbsp;load on human crew members and supporting safer, more affordable, and more effective human-robot space exploration and discovery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENASA\u2019s Early Career Faculty Award is administered by the agency\u2019s Space Technology Research Grants Program, which seeks to accelerate the development of emerging technologies from academia that serve the needs of NASA, other government agencies, and space-related industries.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machine\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/chernova\u0022\u003ESonia Chernova\u003C\/a\u003E is one of eight university researchers nationwide selected by NASA to receive the 2016\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press\/2014\/july\/nasa-announces-early-career-faculty-space-tech-research-grants\/\u0022\u003EEarly Career Faculty Award\u003C\/a\u003E (ECF) in the Space Technology Research Grants program.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Chernova\u2019s grant, worth up to $200,000 per year over three years, is awarded to outstanding early career faculty focused on space technology development addressing critical needs in the U.S. space program."}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2016-08-31 16:20:31","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"571471":{"id":"571471","type":"image","title":"Sonia Chernova","body":null,"created":"1472676847","gmt_created":"2016-08-31 20:54:07","changed":"1475895379","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:19","alt":"Sonia Chernova","file":{"fid":"207097","name":"sonia_chernova.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sonia_chernova_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sonia_chernova_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":87189,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sonia_chernova_1.jpg?itok=TYrPSzqp"}}},"media_ids":["571471"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/spacetech\/strg\/ecf2016.html","title":"NASA Press Release"},{"url":"http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/chernova","title":"Sonia Chernova"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"172312","name":"NASA Early Career Faculty Award"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"169047","name":"Sonia Chernova"}],"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 - IRIM Marketing Communications Mgr.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["josie@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"573271":{"#nid":"573271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Team of Robots Learns to Work Together, Without Colliding","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen roboticists create behaviors for teams of robots, they first build algorithms that focus on the intended task. Then they wrap safety behaviors around those primary algorithms to keep the machines from running into each other. Each robot is essentially given an invisible bubble that other robots must stay away from. As long as nothing touches the bubble, the robots move around without any issues. But that\u2019s where the problems begin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen you have too many robots together, they get so focused on not colliding with each other that they eventually just stop moving,\u201d said Georgia Tech roboticist \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gritslab.gatech.edu\/home\/\u0022\u003EMagnus Egerstedt\u003C\/a\u003E, director of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robotics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cTheir safety behaviors take over and the robots freeze. It\u2019s impossible for them to go anywhere because any movement would cause their bubbles to pop.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt has created a solution. His team\u2019s new algorithms allow any number of robots to move within inches of each other, without colliding, to complete their task \u2014 swapping locations on his lab floor. They are the first researchers to create such minimally invasive safety algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn technical speak, the bots are using a set of safe states and barrier certificates to ensure each stays in its own safe set throughout the entire maneuver.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn everyday speak, we\u2019ve shrunk the size of each robot\u2019s bubble to make it as small as possible,\u201d said Egerstedt, who is also the Julian T. Hightower Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u201cOur system allows the robots to make the minimum amount of changes to their original behaviors in order to accomplish the task and not smack into each other.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2uujKTU0TYE\u0022\u003EIn a demo with four robots\u003C\/a\u003E, the lab\u2019s machines approach from four different areas, meet in the middle, circle counterclockwise within inches of each other, then fan out into opposite directions. In another demonstration, eight robots perform the same task, this time circling clockwise before dispersing. Instead of keeping their distance and taking the long way around their neighbors, the robots move very independently wherever they wish.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAvoiding collisions isn\u2019t anything new in robotics. And Google\u2019s self-driving cars are almost crash-free.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBut we haven\u2019t seen thousands of autonomous cars on the road together yet,\u201d Egerstedt said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRobots are very conservative \u2014 they want to make sure they\u2019re safe. You couldn\u2019t pack the interstate with self-driving cars with today\u2019s technology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt also said something similar to these algorithms could be used for the next generation of air traffic control. Instead of people directing the flow, planes will be given the authority in airspaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey\u2019ll have to be safer if we plan to pack the airspace more densely.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper about the project, \u201cMulti-objective Compositions for Collision-Free Connectivity Maintenance in Teams of Mobile Robots,\u201d has been accepted at this year\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cdc2016.ieeecss.org\/\u0022\u003EIEEE Conference on Decision and Control\u003C\/a\u003E in Las Vegas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation (grant numbers 1544332 and 1239055). \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAny opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew algorithms allow any number of robots to move within inches of each other, without colliding, to complete their task \u2014 swapping locations on his lab floor. 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Associate Dean for Research Nancey Green Leigh is the principal investigator of a new $784,887 grant from the National Science Foundation National Robotics Initiative to study the U.S. robotics industry and the economic impacts of robotics technology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLeigh, also a professor in the School of City and Regional Planning, is co-PI with Henrik Christensen, former director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. He is now director of the Contextual Robotics Institute at the University of California, San Diego.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe two-year grant will enable researchers to generate data and conduct analyses about the U.S. robotics industry and the economic impacts of robotics technology. The work will advance the understanding of the relationship between 21st-century technology and work, meeting a need to assess robots as more than just advanced manufacturing technology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAccording to Leigh, much of existing discussion on robots and industry has been speculative. The data that does exist ends at 2007.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe project will have several components, but the researchers will start by surveying the manufacturing industry about its robot use and employment patterns, followed by a survey of systems integrators. 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Employment structures, the changing nature of work, among other factors will be some day be impacted, the grant proposal states.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Nancey Green Leigh is the principal investigator of a new $784,887 grant from the NSF National Robotics Initiative to study the U.S. robotics industry and the economic impacts of robotics technology.","format":"plain_text"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nancey Green Leigh is the principal investigator of a new $784,887 grant from the NSF National Robotics Initiative to study the U.S. robotics industry and the economic impacts of robotics technology."}],"uid":"32550","created_gmt":"2016-10-17 16:43:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-21 17:52:10","author":"Malrey Head","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59790":{"id":"59790","type":"image","title":"Nancey Green Leigh","body":null,"created":"1449176227","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:07","changed":"1475894398","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:58","alt":"Nancey Green Leigh","file":{"fid":"190992","name":"Green_Leigh_Preferred.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Green_Leigh_Preferred_0.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Green_Leigh_Preferred_0.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":96974,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Green_Leigh_Preferred_0.JPG?itok=jSZ6ADua"}}},"media_ids":["59790"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"},{"id":"60380","name":"CSPAV - Center for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization"},{"id":"60381","name":"CMT - Center for Music Technology"},{"id":"1260","name":"CQGRD - Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"},{"id":"468131","name":"SimTigrate"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"},{"id":"780","name":"employment"},{"id":"215","name":"manufacturing"}],"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\u003EMalrey Head\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nmalrey.head@design.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"582945":{"#nid":"582945","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Do androids dream of eating sheep?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDo cyborgs really need to eat? 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That could accelerate the gathering of information used to map the functions of brain cells and ultimately provide a better understanding what\u0026rsquo;s going on between our ears.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe technique would be used in a recording method known as patch-clamping, in which a tiny liquid-filled glass pipette is connected to individual neurons. Since patch-clamping was invented three decades ago, the technique has required changing pipettes between recordings \u0026ndash; a manual process that slows research. Now, a robotic cleaning technique developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology allows the pipettes to be reused for as many as 11 recordings \u0026ndash; and potentially more \u0026ndash; allowing the recording to be more automated.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a step toward revolutionizing the robotic techniques in neuroscience,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/forest\u0022\u003ECraig Forest\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026ldquo;We want to be able to put samples into our machine and walk away while it records 50 or even 100 neurons. This could enable for neuroscience the kind of research automation we\u0026rsquo;ve seen in other fields such as molecular biology, dramatically expanding our ability to listen in on brain signals.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESupported by the National Institutes of Health and the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the research was reported October 11 in the journal \u003Cem\u003EScientific Reports\u003C\/em\u003E. Based on their cleaning technique and earlier innovations that automated the process of connecting the pipettes to cells, the Georgia Tech researchers have demonstrated what\u0026rsquo;s believed to be the first robot to perform sequential patch-clamp recording in cell culture, brain slices, and in the living brain \u0026ndash; without a human operator.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo share what it\u0026rsquo;s doing, the patch-clamping robot \u0026ndash; known as \u0026ldquo;patcherBot\u0026rdquo; \u0026ndash; has its own Twitter account to automatically report on every cell it records. \u0026ldquo;This is the first social neuroscience robot,\u0026rdquo; said Forest.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPatch-clamping is the gold standard for stimulating and recording signals from neurons and other cells. It involves touching a glass pipette with a tip just one micron in diameter to the cell membrane, creating a tight seal that provides a direct electrical connection to the insides of the cell. The work is extremely meticulous and time-consuming, though a recent robotic technology termed the Autopatcher, also out of Forest\u0026rsquo;s lab, has automated parts of the process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause cellular debris could prevent the tight connection to cells, researchers have had to replace the pipettes with new ones for each recording. But while conducting patch-clamping, graduate research assistant Ilya Kolb began to question the conventional wisdom that the pipettes could not be used more than once. He knew about detergents used to clean laboratory glassware, and set to work assessing whether or not these agents to be used in a robotic cleaning process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If you could clean the pipette automatically after each recording, you could just tell the Autopatcher to go back to cells again and again,\u0026rdquo; Forest explained. \u0026ldquo;You wouldn\u0026rsquo;t even have to be in the room anymore. You could set this up before you leave the lab for the day, and when you returned the next morning, you\u0026rsquo;d have recorded 50 or 100 cells.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKolb tested eight cleaning solutions and found one \u0026ndash; Alconox \u0026ndash; which successfully removed the debris. He reprogrammed the software operating the Autopatcher to add cleaning and rinsing steps between each recording. The new robot dips the pipette into a detergent solution located in a well next to the sample, creates a flow of fluid into and back out of the pipette, then moves the pipette to a rinse in a separate well. The entire cleaning process takes about a minute, which is as fast or even faster than a trained human operator.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers compared the quality of the recordings made by the cleaned pipettes to those made with new ones.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When we patch with a fresh pipette and when we patch with a pipette that has been used and cleaned 11 times, the results are basically indistinguishable,\u0026rdquo; said Kolb. \u0026ldquo;We do see some degradation after 14 or more attempts, but we\u0026rsquo;re hopeful that with improvements in the technique, we could reuse pipettes as many as 50 or 100 times.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with researchers at Emory University, the technique was tested to determine whether any remaining detergent residue could affect living cells. Results of the testing, supplemented with mass spectroscopy studies of the pipette fluid, found no adverse implications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has filed for patent protection on the new robotic technique, which allows technicians to simply choose the cells to be recorded using a microscope view \u0026ndash; then let the machine work. The researchers hope the technique can be commercialized for use not only by the thousands of labs currently using patch-clamping, but also used to expand automated applications more broadly for pharmaceutical testing and other research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If we can put this technology into a piece of equipment and have all the smarts provided by software, it could really democratize this area of research,\u0026rdquo; said Forest. \u0026ldquo;That\u0026rsquo;s where we\u0026rsquo;re headed in building tools that will make new science possible.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EResearch reported in this press release was supported by NIH Computational Neuroscience Training grant (DA032466-02) and BRAIN Initiative awards (U01-MH106027-01, R01-EY023173, R44-NS083108-03). 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