{"287501":{"#nid":"287501","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GrannyBot: GT Computing Students Create Pocket-Sized Humanoid Robot Grandma","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGrannyBot: GT Computing Students Create Pocket-Sized Humanoid Robot Grandma\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDorm food got you down? Forget your jacket this morning, even though there\u2019s a high chance of snowpocalypse? Just need a hug?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn anticipation of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nationalroboticsweek.org\/\u0022\u003ENational Robotics Week\u003C\/a\u003E, students at the Georgia Tech College of Computing have announced a new humanoid robot, GrannyBot. Though she may\u0026nbsp;take fifteen minutes to walk across the street, she\u0027ll bake her way into your heart. GrannyBot is the humanoid robot grandma you never knew you needed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/tinypic.com?ref=20zp7r4\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat\u2019s the worst thing about being away from home? Not having grandma to knit you stylish beanies and cozy quilts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I left for school, I realized that I\u2019d also left part of my heart at home\u2026with Gram Gram,\u201d explains GT Computing undergrad and GrannyBot\u2019s developer, Brit Priolo. \u201cBeing a part of one of the top computer science programs in the nation, surrounded by students building humanoid robots in their dorm rooms, the solution was clear \u2013 I would create my own, pocket-sized, robotic Gram Gram.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn three days, using only an old soda can, plastic googly-eyes, some twine and a highly sophisticated computer program loosely based on Super Smash Bros., GrannyBot was born.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I first met GrannyBot, she handed me a cookie and told me that I was her favorite granddaughter. Even though I suspect she says that to everyone, I still think she\u2019s the best thing that ever happened to me,\u201d shares GrannyBot Marketing Manager, GT student Mikaela Dyershikov.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPriolo and Dyershikov, along with a handful of students from the Georgia Tech Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM), developed GrannyBot with the intention of selling the prototype to a large-scale manufacturer. Priolo laments, \u201cI can\u2019t give her up just yet. She packs my lunch for class every day \u2013 ham and cheese with the crust cut off. And she\u2019s teaching Mikaela how to crochet. You can\u2019t just sell your grandma like that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGrannyBot is set to go into mass production later this year. Priolo and fellow developers are working out a few final kinks \u2013 though GrannyBot claims that she still looks and feels twenty-eight.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The latest invention from students at the Georgia Tech College of Computing may take fifteen minutes to walk across the street, but she will bake her way into your heart. Meet GrannyBot, the humanoid robot grandma you never knew you needed."}],"uid":"27998","created_gmt":"2014-04-01 10:18:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:07","author":"Brittany Aiello","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"287511":{"id":"287511","type":"image","title":"GrannyBotAprilFools2014","body":null,"created":"1449244254","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:50:54","changed":"1475894983","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:43","alt":"GrannyBotAprilFools2014","file":{"fid":"199134","name":"grannybotprototype.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/grannybotprototype_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/grannybotprototype_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":79495,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/grannybotprototype_0.jpg?itok=VrEGlMNO"}}},"media_ids":["287511"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrittany Price, \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bprice@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebprice@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}