{"51801":{"#nid":"51801","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College of Computing Professor Brings Robots Center Stage at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u00a0\u003Cstrong\u003E(April 13, 2006)\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2014 College of Computing (CoC) Associate Professor Tucker Balch is chair as Georgia Tech\u00a0hosts the 2006 KUKA RoboCup U.S. Open on April 20-23. The public is invited to see innovative and unusual search and rescue robots, the four-legged dog robots playing soccer, and the fast-moving small-size robots at this year\u2019s event. Robotic teams from top universities in the United States, Germany, Mexico, and Canada will compete for the coveted championship title including Georgia Tech, Harvard, MIT, Colorado State, Carnegie Mellon, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EIn addition to bringing RoboCup\u00a0to Georgia Tech, Tucker Balch was instrumental in establishing\u00a0the College of Computing\u0027s\u00a0unprecedented Robotics Doctoral Program.\u00a0CoC\u00a0has\u00a0further solidified its\u00a0position as a national academic leader in robotics with the recent appointment of international\u00a0expert Dr. Henrik Christensen as\u00a0KUKA Chair of Robotics.\u00a0Christensen\u2019s\u00a0position\u00a0is endowed by a $1.5 million grant from KUKA Robotics, the North American subsidiary of KUKA Roboter GmbH and a global leader in robot manufacturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EKUKA and Lockheed Martin are U.S Open sponsors of\u00a0RoboCup,\u00a0an international project designed to promote research in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, computational perception and related fields.\u00a0The goal is to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a set of standard problems where a wide range of technologies, including perception, planning, cooperation, and action must be integrated and examined.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E2006 KUKA RoboCup Schedule:\u003Cbr \/\u003EApril 20 \u2013 venue opens for the teams at 12 noon \u003Cbr \/\u003EApril 21 - competition begins 8:30AM - 6PM \u003Cbr \/\u003EApril 22 \u2013 round-robin competitions and quarter finals from 8:30AM \u2013 5PM \u003Cbr \/\u003EApril 23 \u2013 semi-finals and finals 8:30AM \u2013 Noon; finals 1PM \u2013 4PM\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EFor more details about this year\u0027s RoboCup including participants and updated schedule, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robocup-us.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout KUKA Robotics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EKUKA Robotics Corporation, with its parent company KUKA Roboter GmbH, Augsburg, Germany, is one of the world\u0027s leading manufacturers of industrial robots, with an annual production volume approaching 10,000 units, and an installed base of over 60,000 units.\u00a0 The company\u2019s 5 and 6 axis robots range from 3kg to 570kg payloads, and 635mm to 3700mm reach, all controlled from a common PC based controller platform. KUKA robots are utilized in a diverse range of industries including the appliance, automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, logistics, food, pharmaceutical, medical, foundry and plastics industries. KUKA robots are found in a multitude of applications including: material handling, machine loading, assembly, packaging, palletizing, welding, bending, joining, and surface finishing.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC Associate Professor Tucker Balch is Chair of the 2006 KUKA RoboCup U.S. Open on April 20-23.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:47:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:19","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}