Robotics

The Georgia Institute of Technology opened its doors to more than 400 middle school and high school students on April 11 for the third annual Robotics Open House. Georgia Tech Masters students and Ph.D. candidates demonstrated more than 20 projects around campus, marking the Institute’s participation in National Robotics Week. Simon is a socially interactive robot that can learn movements.

 

The Georgia Institute of Technology opened its doors to more than 400 middle school and high school students on Wednesday for the third annual Robotics Open House. Georgia Tech masters students and Ph.D. candidates demonstrated more than 20 projects around campus, marking the Institute’s participation in National Robotics Week.

Students saw a variety of projects, including an autonomous race car, robotic submarines and Simon (click here for a video of the day’s events).

An international research consortium has sequenced the genome of the woodland strawberry, according to a study published in the Dec. 26 advance online edition of the journal Nature Genetics. The development is expected to unlock possibilities for breeding tastier, hardier varieties of the berry and other crops in its family.