Image shows the view through the PR2’s cameras showing the environment around the robot. Clicking the yellow disc allows users the control the arm. (Credit: Phillip Grice, Georgia Tech)

Seeing through a Robot’s Eyes Helps Those with Profound Motor Impairments

Atlanta, GA

An interface system that uses augmented reality technology could help individuals with profound motor impairments operate a humanoid robot to feed themselves and perform routine personal care tasks.

2019 InVenture Finalist: Unfoldit

Atlanta, GA

The idea for a gaming app came from an unlikely place – the American Dental Association’s national admissions test.

A robotic car controlled by an ultra-low power hybrid chip is shown in an arena to demonstrate its ability to learn and collaborate with another robot. (Photo: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech)

Ultra-Low Power Chips Help Make Small Robots More Capable

Atlanta, GA

An ultra-low power hybrid chip inspired by the brain could help give palm-sized robots the ability to collaborate and learn from their experiences.

Rampi Ramprasad, a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, holds an aluminum-based capacitor. (Credit: Allison Carter)

Researchers Use Machine Learning To More Quickly Analyze Key Capacitor Materials

Atlanta, GA

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology are using machine learning to ultimately find ways to build more capable capacitors.

Georgia Tech researchers Tohid Shekari, Raheem Beyah, Morris Cohen, and Lukas Graber are shown with a substation that is part of the electric grid. The researchers have developed a new technique to secure the substations. (Image: Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech)

Signals from Distant Lightning Could Help Secure Electric Substations

Atlanta, GA

A new technique could one day help prevent hackers from sabotaging electric power substations and other critical infrastructure.

A Western Shovel-nosed snake moves through a force-sensitive set of rubber pegs. The pegs altered the direction of the snakes’ travel, but didn’t vary the waveform they used to move. (Photo: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech)

When Sand-Slithering Snakes Behave Like Light Waves

Atlanta, GA

A new study by SMI Professors Dan Goldman and Zeb Rocklin shows how the motion of snakes moving across a sandy surface can be affected by obstacles.

A T cell, here in purple, makes contact with a transplant organ cell, here in reddish brown. The T cell secretes the enzyme granzyme B, here in gray, which attacks the organ cell. But granzyme B also severs fluorescent signal molecules, in green, from the rejection detecting nanoparticle, in light pink. The signal molecules make their way into the urine, where they give off a fluorescent cue. Georgia Tech / EllaMaru Studio (work for hire, all rights GT, free for distribution).

Urine Test Detects Organ Transplant Rejection, Could Replace Needle Biopsies

Atlanta, GA

New nanoparticle makes urine glow as soon as T cells initiate an attack on transplanted organs

Georgia Tech assistant professor Mariel Borowitz is shown with satellite communications equipment. Dramatic growth in the generation and collection of data will change the way federal agencies make data available. (Photo: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech)

Will Moving to the Commercial Cloud Leave Some Data Users Behind?

Atlanta, GA

A space policy researcher urges caution on the design of commercial cloud contracts for hosting federal agency data.

Andreas Bommarius, a professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Martha Grover, a professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Ron Rousseau, a professor and Cecil J. "Pete" Silas Chair Emeritus in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Credit: Rob Felt)

FDA Taps Georgia Tech to Help Reduce Cost of Making Antibiotics

Atlanta, GA

A team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology has kicked off a three-year federally-funded project to harness new manufacturing technologies and methods in a bid to bring down the cost of making certain antibiotics.

Associate Professor Anna Erickson shown with the subcritical graphite pile used to teach radiation physics concepts at Georgia Tech. (Photo: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)

$25 Million Award Will Support Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D, Education

Atlanta, GA

A new consortium has been awarded $25 million to develop new technologies and educational program to support nuclear nonproliferation.