{"594831":{"#nid":"594831","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Opens Robotics Lab to the World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe nation\u0026rsquo;s first remote robotics lab, and the nearly 100 machines that call it home, is now open thanks to a little help from its friends.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Robotarium held its grand opening on Tuesday in the Van Leer Building. Appropriately, a scissor-wielding robot (named Snips) cut the ribbon. Later, a researcher from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign skyped into the room to run a live remote experiment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s time to begin a new era in robotics,\u0026rdquo; said Magnus Egerstedt, the Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems and Controls and a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt, who oversees the lab, was joined by President G.P. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Peterson, other cabinet members and more than a dozen congressional staffers who were on campus to learn more about Georgia Tech research and initiatives.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Robotarium is a $2.5 million facility funded by the National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research. It allows researchers around the world to upload their own code, then have Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s rolling and flying swarm robots perform the experiment. Afterwards the researcher is sent data and video.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEgerstedt, executive director of Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, dreamed up the lab about two years ago. It\u0026rsquo;s expensive to build and maintain robots, let alone an entire robotics facility. He wanted more people to have access.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;It irritated me, and it still does, that robotics research is largely a resource competition and not a \u0026lsquo;who has the best ideas\u0026rsquo; competition,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;The Robotarium is solving that. If you have a good idea, you should have a platform to try it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHundreds of students visited the lab after the ribbon-cutting ceremony for an open house. 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