{"583699":{"#nid":"583699","#data":{"type":"news","title":"How the U.S. Can Reign during the Coming Robot Invasion","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis article appeared on Fortune.com on November 7, 2016.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile robots have the potential to be very intelligent, if there\u0026rsquo;s one thing that books, movies, and even our own experiences have shown, it\u0026rsquo;s that they also can be\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YEjQMMhDkjU\u0022\u003Eremarkably dumb\u003C\/a\u003E. So one sure-fire way for the U.S. to continue leading the robotics world is by investing in education. Not only are these machines getting smarter every day, but so too are other countries, training the kind of workers required to operate robots that can\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/01\/30\/gm-cloud-factory-robots-fanuc\/\u0022\u003Ecoat cars on assembly lines\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with paint and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/05\/25\/adidas-robot-speedfactories\/\u0022\u003Eproduce sneakers faster\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;than ever.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0026rsquo;s one takeaway from a new\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/jacobsschool.ucsd.edu\/contextualrobotics\/docs\/rm3-final-rs.pdf\u0022\u003Ereport\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;released Monday by a group of 120 robotics experts. Intended to brief the U.S. government on the state of robotics so that the government can better plan for the future, the Roadmap to Robotics report is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (as well as a few universities) and written by experts from the private sector as well as academic institutions like like Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, and Yale.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech professors who helped write the report are Magnus Egerstedt and Ayanna Howard from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jaydev Desai and Charlie Kemp from the Georgia Tech\/Emory Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Sonia Chernova in the School of Interactive Computing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/11\/07\/robot-roadmap-report-labor-jobs\/\u0022\u003ERead the rest of the Fortune article by Jonathan Vanian, published November 7, 2016\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Report urges U.S. to invest more in robotic and tech education to better compete internationally"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Roadmap to Robotics report is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (as well as a few universities) and written by experts from the private sector as well as academic institutions llike Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, and Yale.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Roadmap to Robotics report is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (as well as a few universities) and written by experts from the private sector as well as academic institutions, including Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-11-09 16:50:57","changed_gmt":"2016-11-09 16:56:12","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"3264","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}