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March 25, 2026

Georgia Tech Recognizes Excellence with 2026 Institute Research Awards

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Georgia Tech has named the 2026 Institute Research Award recipients, recognizing faculty, staff, and research teams whose work advances innovation, mentorship, collaboration, and societal impact across the Institute’s research enterprise.

A white humanoid robot holds a blue pan while standing in a kitchen with a green backsplash

March 19, 2026

Smarter, Faster, and More Human: A Leap Toward General-Purpose Robots

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New AI system lets robots work faster than their human teachers without sacrificing accuracy.

March 11, 2026

Sheepdogs Reveal a Better Way to Guide Robot Swarms

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Georgia Tech researchers studying sheepdog trials found new principles for guiding unpredictable groups and used them to develop computer models that could improve coordination in robot swarms, autonomous vehicles, and other networked systems.

February 24, 2026

Georgia Tech Arts Announces Spring 2026 Microgrant Awardees

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Georgia Tech Arts Announces Spring 2026 Microgrant Awardees

February 19, 2026

Robot Pollinator Could Produce More, Better Crops for Indoor Farms

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A research team that expands GTRI, the College of Engineering, and the College of Computing have developed a robot capable of pollinating flowers in indoor farms.

Two individuals on a large circular motion platform in a research lab, with one person seated cross‑legged on the platform and another suspended in a harness wearing a Georgia Tech exoskeleton system.

February 18, 2026

Humanoid Robots Make Confident Strides Toward Walking Stability

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Georgia Tech researchers have developed a new “thinking” technology for two-legged robots, increasing their balance and agility.

A real worm in a Petri dish (top left) and a robot worm (bottom right) clean their environments of tiny particles in a very similar manner.

January 16, 2026

Researchers Discover How Worms Clean Their Environment Without a Brain

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When placed in sand-filled Petri dishes, centimeter-long aquatic worms like T. tubifex spontaneously sweep up particles and reorganize their environment — all without a brain.

Two Georgia Tech researchers looking at a biomedical chip.

January 5, 2026

Georgia Tech Climbs to No. 2 University in Federally Sponsored Research Expenditures

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This is the Institute’s best ranking in the National Science Foundation’s annual survey.

Satellite with large blue solar panels orbiting above Earth, showing cloud formations and the planet's curvature against a dark space background

December 9, 2025

From Galaxy to Ground: How Space Research Shapes Everyday Life

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Satellites power everything from weather forecasts to global communications, and researchers at Georgia Tech’s Space Research Institute are advancing both the technology and international policies that keep them operating safely.

Three Georgia Tech researchers working together in the lab on cancer research

November 20, 2025

Georgia Tech Ranked No. 7 Globally in Interdisciplinary Science Rankings

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Georgia Tech has been ranked 7th in the world in the 2026 Times Higher Education Interdisciplinary Science Rankings

Matthew Gombolay and Aaron Young pose in the lab while Ph.D. researchers work on a leg exoskeleton device.

November 19, 2025

Real-World Helper Exoskeletons Just Got Closer to Reality

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Georgia Tech researchers are using AI to quickly train exoskeleton devices, making it much more practical to develop, improve, and ultimately deploy wearable robots for people with impaired mobility.

The LIDAR Research Team with Digit Robot

November 18, 2025

LIDAR Lab-mates Moving Humanoid Robots Closer to Adaptability in the Real World

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To achieve better training outcomes with faster deployment results, Fukang Liu and Feiyang Wu have published a duo of papers in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

October 23, 2025

The Perfect Fit: Crafting a Career at the Intersection of Making, Helping, and Human Mobility

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Kinsey Herrin’s lifelong passion for working with her hands guided her career path, ultimately leading her to become a prosthetist/orthotist and principal researcher at Georgia Tech.

Georgia Tech's Tech Tower with flowers blooming in the foreground

September 18, 2025

The Robotic Breakthrough That Could Help Stroke Survivors Reclaim Their Stride

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Georgia Tech's AI-fueled exoskeleton adapts to every step, helping patients relearn to walk with less effort and more confidence.

September 18, 2025

A Step Forward: New Smart Shoe Insert Could Improve Mobility for People With Walking Problems

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The affordable wearable measures foot pressure and could improve stroke and Parkinson’s therapy.

September 17, 2025

Two IC Faculty Receive NSF CAREER for Robotics and AR/VR Initiatives

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Two Georgia Tech professors, Danfei Xu and Yalong Yang, have received the prestigious NSF CAREER award for their research in robotics, which focuses on teaching robots to self-improve, and in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), which aims to create imm

September 16, 2025

Faculty Awarded $3.2 Million NIH Grant to Advance Research on Aging and Walking

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Three Georgia Tech researchers have received a $3.2 million Research Project Grant (R01) from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute on Aging (NIA).

Professor Jun Ueda with a student in his lab

September 12, 2025

Cybersecurity for the Physical World

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Jun Ueda receives NSF grant to research a critical gap in networked robotic systems

A centipede based multi-legged robot exhibiting locomotion on rugged landscapes

September 12, 2025

Crawling Faster, Clambering Higher

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Dual publications highlight advances in multilegged robot motion

Georgia Tech researchers test their prototype of a robotic guide dog. Photo by Terence Rushin/College of Computing.

September 10, 2025

Georgia Tech Team Designing Robot Guide Dog to Assist the Visually Impaired

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Researchers rely on feedback from blind and visually impaired (BVI) communities to create service animal prototype.