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Shimi the Robot’s Latest Venture in Sound Explores Emotive Response and What It Means for Communication

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<p>Georgia Tech undergraduate student Lillian Chen demonstrates how she and colleague Alex Hubbard studied snakes as they moved through an arena covered with shag carpet to mimic sand. (Photo: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech)</p>

Desert snakes slithering across the sand at night can encounter obstacles such as plants or twigs that alter the direction of their travel. While…

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Said Al Abri has received the Best Poster Award from the 2019 Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) Student Conference. The conference was held…

<p>Gary McMurray testified before the Senate Committee on Agricultural, Nutrition and Forestry.  McMurray leads the Food Processing Technology Division at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.</p>

The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) announced its new board members during the…

<p>Seth Hutchinson has been named executive director of the Georgia Tech Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM). Hutchinson is a professor and KUKA Chair for Robotics in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)</p>

The Georgia Institute of Technology has selected Seth Hutchinson as the new executive director of the …

<p>Cybersecurity experts have a new tool in the fight against hackers – a decoy robot. Researchers at Georgia Tech built the “HoneyBot” to lure hackers into thinking they had taken control of a robot, but instead the robot gathers valuable information about the bad actors, helping businesses better protect themselves from future attacks.</p>

It’s small enough to fit inside a shoebox, yet this robot on four wheels has a big mission: keeping factories and other large facilities safe from…

User Friendlier: Team Led by IRIM's Chernova Is Making it Easier for Nonspecialists to Control Robots