{"682459":{"#nid":"682459","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Leads as Robotics World Converges on Atlanta for ICRA 2025","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/2025.ieee-icra.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (ICRA) will be held Monday through Friday at the Georgia World Congress Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is the flagship robotics conference,\u201d said Seth Hutchinson, a former Georgia Tech professor who served as one of two general chairs for this year\u2019s event. \u201cMost of the robotics researchers you want to hear from or see will be at this conference.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis includes faculty from Georgia Tech\u0027s colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences, as well as the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/robotics\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInstitute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EICRA will feature more than 2,000 presented research papers. Georgia Tech researchers authored or co-authored 57, including 18 written by faculty and students from the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the presented research, the conference will have demos, exhibitions, and robotics competitions throughout the week. The competitions include the Earth Rover Challenge for robot navigation over challenging terrain, the Quadruped Robot Challenges, and the Roboracer Autonomous Grand Prix.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than 130 robotics companies and research institutes will showcase exhibitions. ICRA also hosts a career fair that Hutchinson said provides an excellent opportunity for Georgia Tech students interested in attending.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re able to attract a lot of vendors. For researcher-oriented conferences, there\u2019s no conference where you\u2019ll see this many robotics companies showing up and showing off what they\u2019re doing,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We have a massive career fair you don\u2019t get at other conferences, so if you\u2019re a student looking for work, this is a good place to be.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHutchinson, the former executive director of Tech\u2019s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, said ICRA comes to Atlanta when worldwide interest in robotics is at an all-time high.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/georgia-tech-leads-robotics-world-converges-atlanta-icra-2025\u0022\u003ERead the full article posted at the College of Computing \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe world\u2019s largest robotics conference is coming to Atlanta, and 136 researchers and students from Georgia Tech will showcase their novel and groundbreaking contributions to a booming field.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The world\u2019s largest robotics conference is coming to Atlanta, and 136 researchers and students from Georgia Tech will showcase their novel and groundbreaking contributions to a booming field."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-05-19 18:25:49","changed_gmt":"2025-05-19 18:26:20","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677092":{"id":"677092","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Leads as Robotics World Converges on Atlanta for ICRA 2025","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Leads as Robotics World Converges on Atlanta for ICRA 2025\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1747678885","gmt_created":"2025-05-19 18:21:25","changed":"1747679011","gmt_changed":"2025-05-19 18:23:31","alt":"Georgia Tech Leads as Robotics World Converges on Atlanta for ICRA 2025","file":{"fid":"260956","name":"screen_938.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/19\/screen_938.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/19\/screen_938.png","mime":"image\/png","size":2233508,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/05\/19\/screen_938.png?itok=VZ4wjqXJ"}}},"media_ids":["677092"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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":""}}}