Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed as the Julian T. Hightower Chair Professor in Systems and Controls in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1.

An interdisciplinary team of graduate students and faculty from the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) won the Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Sam Coogan has been appointed to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, effective December 1, 2018.

Four Georgia Tech faculty members were named IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2018. They are BME Professor Jaydev Desai, ECE Professors Saibal Mukhopadhyay and Justin Romberg, and GTRI Senior Research Engineer Kevin James “Jim” Sangston.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been named to Atlanta Magazine's Innovation Index.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard and GSU's Yu-ping Chen have been named to Atlanta Magazine's 2013 Innovation Index.

Georgia Tech celebrates National Robotics Week with an open house and tours on Wednesday, April 8

Magnus Egerstedt has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Hutchinson is a professor and KUKA Chair for Robotics in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing and has served as associate director of IRIM.