{"63359":{"#nid":"63359","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Work being done at the Healthcare Robotics Laboratory was cited in the Scientific American Magazine","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientific American - January 4, 2011\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat does 2011 hold for the field of robotics? Plenty, if 2010 is any indication. This will not be the year that mobile, artificially intelligent robot nurses assume the responsibility of caring for the world\u0027s growing elderly population, but it does promise to be a pivotal time for the development of the underlying technology that will enable safe and reliable automated eldercare, not to mention other services that robots are expected to perform in the coming decade. . . . \u0022There are a lot of innovations in the PR2, but the most significant thing from my perspective is that it is a standardized, well-designed, well-tested platform that has a whole bunch of software that works right out of the box,\u0022 says Charles Kemp, an assistant biomedical engineering professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0022You never had that situation before.\u0022 Kemp and his team at Georgia Tech\u0027s Healthcare Robotics Lab, which he formed in 2007, are focused on creating robots that can safely and effectively help care for senior citizens.\u0026nbsp; . . .Kemp\u0027s lab is one of 16 institutions that experimented with the PR2 during the latter half of 2010.\u0026nbsp; . . .Kemp sees the combination of his PR2, named Gatsby, and a free and open-source robot operating system as a way to accelerate his lab\u0027s work with the help of a standardized platform and a budding community of roboticists working with the same tools who can now offer more practical advice to one another. \u0022We\u0027re actually releasing things that other people can use, and we\u0027re using other people\u0027s things,\u0022 Kemp says.\u003Cbr \/\u003ELink to Full Article:\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=personal-robot-research\u0026amp;\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=personal-robot-research\u0026amp;\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=personal-robot-research\u0026amp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"2011: The Year of the Personal Robot?"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27324","created_gmt":"2011-01-04 13:52:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:57","author":"Lalita Kaligotla","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"550","name":"health systems"},{"id":"2155","name":"healthcare robotics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELalita Kaligotla\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lalita@hsi.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}