Georgia Tech robotics researchers believe people and robots can accomplish much more by working together – as long as the robots have common sense to know, for instance, how much force humans apply when shaving.
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- Exhibit A:
Crossing the Drake Passage
Georgia Tech researchers made a four-day voyage from Chile, across the Drake Passage, to Anvers Island and Palmer Station, Antarctica. Led by Jeannette Yen, a professor in the School of Biology, the team traveled aboard the research vessel Laurence M. Gould, which the team used to explore the waters around Antarctica during their time on the continent. The research vessel carried the scientists past icebergs, leopard seals, and thousands of penguins during the journey to and from Antarctica.
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- Exhibit A:
Gentoo Penguin Parade
Georgia Tech researchers traveling aboard the research vessel Laurence M. Gould witnessed this stunning sight. Thousands of Gentoo penguins frolicked in the frigid waters of Le Maire Channel, near Palmer Station, Antarctica. There was even more action under the water, which the scientists captured by dunking a waterproof camera overboard.
- Exhibit A:
A Lab Like Nowhere Else
Explorers and scientists from the United States have been traveling to Antarctica since 1830. This past spring, scientists from Georgia Tech – led by Jeannette Yen, a professor in the School of Biology – traveled to Palmer Station, Antarctica (seen here), to explore the frozen continent’s frigid waters. They were searching for tiny organisms called pteropods, which could be a canary in the coal mine of climate change.
