{"594273":{"#nid":"594273","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Leigh Shares Robotics Expertise With Financial Analysts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu\/nancey-green-leigh-faicp\u0022\u003ENancey Green Leigh\u003C\/a\u003E, associate dean for research at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/design.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Design\u003C\/a\u003E, was one of several academics who joined analysts and economists at S\u0026amp;P Global for their twice-yearly Academic Roundtable in June in New York.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn the agenda was the rise of automation and robotics, and what it might mean for jobs and the economy; and economic policies that might come out of the Trump administration.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELeigh spoke about her research that suggests the U.S. specializes in the design and implementation of robotics systems rather than design and production of robotic machinery.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe also talked about the parallel sharp increases in robot sales and manufacturing output since the recession ended, in contrast to the modest increases in manufacturing employment and compensation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELast fall she \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/design.gatech.edu\/news\/nancey-green-leigh-receives-grant-study-us-robotics-industry-and-economic-impacts-0\u0022\u003Esecured a grant from the National Science Foundation National Robotics Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E to study the U.S. robotics industry and its economic impacts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELeigh, also a professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech, was among professors from other leading institutions such as Brown, Boston University, and New York University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/\u0022\u003ES\u0026amp;P Global\u003C\/a\u003E provides independent ratings, benchmarks, analytics and data to the capital and commodity markets world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou can hear some of her comments in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AcCB0vArKzQ\u0022\u003Ethis video\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu\/nancey-green-leigh-faicp\u0022\u003ENancey Green Leigh\u003C\/a\u003E, associate dean for research in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/design.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Design\u003C\/a\u003E, recently joined academics, analysts, and economists at S\u0026amp;P Global\u0026nbsp;for a discussion of robotics and the economy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nancey Green Leigh, associate dean for research in the College of Design, recently joined academics, analysts, and economists at S\u0026P Global for a discussion of robotics and the economy."}],"uid":"32550","created_gmt":"2017-08-10 13:20:00","changed_gmt":"2017-08-14 12:16:35","author":"Malrey Head","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"590453":{"id":"590453","type":"image","title":"Nancey Green Leigh","body":null,"created":"1492192677","gmt_created":"2017-04-14 17:57:57","changed":"1492192677","gmt_changed":"2017-04-14 17:57:57","alt":"Nancey Green Leigh","file":{"fid":"224948","name":"pofile.ngleigh.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pofile.ngleigh.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/pofile.ngleigh.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":69857,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/pofile.ngleigh.jpg?itok=vkOkL6D_"}}},"media_ids":["590453"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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\u003EMalrey Head\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nmalrey.head@design.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}