About IRIM
IRIM is one of 11 interdisciplinary research institutes that build our research community, provide expertise and cutting-edge facilities, develop thought leadership, support education and training, and advance research through the innovation pipeline.
The Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) brings together robotic researchers, educators, and students from across campus to study robotic systems -- from low-level actuation to high-level intelligence. Our research addresses applications including human-robot interaction (HRI); human augmentation, exoskeletons, and prosthetics; locomotion and manipulation; autonomous vehicles; multi-robot systems; and more.
Increasingly, robots are moving out of highly controlled manufacturing environments and into spaces co-inhabited by humans, such as in homes, hospitals, farms, warehouses, and battlefields. This robot migration requires not only new engineering and computing ideas, but also meaningful connections with psychology, economics, public policy, and even the arts. These interdisciplinary connections fit Georgia Tech perfectly, and one of our key strengths is in precisely this domain of Collaborative Robotics, i.e., robots working autonomously alongside people.
Research Areas
- Biorobotics
- Science of Robotics
- Field and Service Robots
- Collaborative Robots
- AI & ML for Robotics
- Ethics, Policy & Social Impact
Campus Research Partners
- Collaborative Human–Automation Robotics Technology (CHART)
- Georgia Center for Medical Robotics (GCMR)
- Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)
- Machine Learning Center (ML@GT)
- Tech AI
- The Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS)