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New Lab to Give Nation's Researchers Remote Access to Robots
The Georgia Institute of Technology is building a new lab that will allow roboticists from around the country to conduct experiments remotely.
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The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is building the Robotarium, a new laboratory that will enable roboticists to conduct experiments remotely.
Researchers from other universities, as well as middle school and high school students, will schedule experiments, upload their programming code, watch the robots in real time via streamed video feeds, and receive scientific data demonstrating the results. The lab is expected to house up to 100 ground and aerial swarm robots.
"We need to provide more access to more people in order to continue creating robot-assisted technologies," says Georgia Tech professor Magnus Egerstedt. "The Robotarium will allow that." He also says the laboratory has the potential to build stronger networks of collaborative research, showing how remote access instruments can be applied to other areas beyond robotics.
The U.S. National Science Foundation is helping to fund the project with two grants totaling $2.5 million. One of the grants will transform an existing classroom into the new lab, while the other will help create safe and secure open-access systems for the remote lab.
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