Visitors to the Atlanta Botanical Garden can observe the testing of SlothBot, a new high-tech tool in the battle to save some of the world’s most endangered species.

In 1988, the School of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology hired Bonnie Ferri as its first female faculty member. The School now has 13 women in its faculty ranks.

ECE Assistant Professor Sam Coogan received the 2020 Donald P. Eckman Award at the American Control Conference, which was held July 1-3 in an online format.

ECE Ph.D. students Charles Topliff and Joanne Truong have been named as recipients of the 2020 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships.

ECE Professor Fumin Zhang has been appointed as the director of the Decision and Control Laboratory (DCL), effective May 11, 2020.

Azadeh Ansari has been appointed as the Sutterfield Family Early Career Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective September 1, 2019. 

ECE Assistant Professor Azadeh Ansari has been named as a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

ECE Professor and School Chair Magnus Egerstedt received the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award at the 2019 American Control Conference (ACC), held July 10-12 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ECE Ph.D. student Mengxue Hou received one of the three Best Poster Awards in the Student Poster Competition of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, the flagship international conference on Ocean Engineering and Technologies.

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

ECE Ph.D. student Said Al Abri has received the Best Poster Award from the 2019 Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) Student Conference.

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

The size of an ant, the micro-bristle-bot moves by harnessing vibration.

An ultra-low power hybrid chip inspired by the brain could help give palm-sized robots the ability to collaborate and learn from their experiences.

Slow and energy-efficient SlothBot will handle environmental monitoring and other tasks.