{"304951":{"#nid":"304951","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Christensen Named One of the Most Important People Working in Robotics Today","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHenrik Christensen received the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robotics.org\/userAssets\/riaUploads\/pastrecipients_year.pdf\u0022\u003EEngelberger Award in 2011\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for his role in robotics education. As a professor at Georgia Tech, he carries out various research projects with an eye always toward \u201creal problems with real solutions.\u201d He\u2019s published some 300 papers in the field dealing with big-picture topics from robot vision to artificial intelligence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe recently\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/driverless-cars-2014-4\u0022\u003Emade the startling prediction\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that robotics is advancing sufficiently such that children born today will never actually drive a car.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-06-24 15:44:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:11","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"LZRD sleeve","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/important-robotics-people-2014-6?op=1","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11890","name":"henrik christensen"},{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}