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A team consisting of researchers from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Cardea Bio, and the University of Georgia is developing a prototype sensor that can detect SARS-CoV-2 in the air.

The state’s well-established aerospace community and strong research capabilities, notably the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), made Georgia the ideal headquarters for NXT Communications Corp. (NXTCOMM), a wireless connectivity company Horton co-founded in 2017. He’s now the company’s CEO.

Aiming to take the technology to the next level, Atlanta-based NXT Communications (NXTCOMM) has designed AeroMax, a new flat-panel electronically steered antenna that uses a fragmented aperture – an innovation developed in collaboration with the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

DARPA recently awarded contracts to five companies, including the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), to develop algorithms enabling mixed teams of manned and unmanned combat aircraft to conduct aerial dogfighting autonomously.

Stay-at-home orders issued across the United States in the spring appeared to work at keeping people home, new cellphone data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. The researchers, from the CDC and the Georgia Tech Research Institute, examined those orders and analyzed anonymous location data from mobile devices.

Researchers at Georgia Tech have created a box to disinfect personal protective equipment in the quickest and most effective way. They said the boxes have the potential to help with PPE shortages by giving first responders a way to re-wear the same PPE safely.

Portable disinfection chambers that use ultraviolet light to inactivate virus particles could quickly disinfect personal protective equipment, researchers report.

Researchers in the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Food Processing Technology Division have been working for several years on the development of a robotic system that can tend to poultry flocks.

For years, Atlanta-based Georgia Tech Research Institute’s (GTRI) researchers have experimented with creating robots that can take care of poultry flocks, so human workers don’t contaminate or introduce disease to commercial poultry houses...Now, GTRI is testing robots’ ability to pick up eggs and mortality from the floor.

The Georgia Tech Research Insititute, for example, continues to experiment with a Dynamic Filtration System that stops particles before the filter and removes them in a smaller footprint.

NXT Communications Corporation (NXTCOMM) collaborated with Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) to explore antenna and RF system design options featuring their patented fragmented aperture technology. NXTCOMM announced June 24, 2020 the completion of initial designs of its new electronically steered flat panel antenna to serve key mobility markets.

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is one of the partners aiding in Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's plan to greatly increase coronavirus testing throughout the state of Georgia.

John Trostel, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) principal research scientist, provides intel about reduced infrasound being detected at a GTRI facility in metropolitan Atlanta, potentially due to social distancing measures.

Health care workers are facing a serious shortage of critical equipment needed to treat COVID-19. The New York Times spoke to makers, including employees from the Georgia Tech Research Insititute (GTRI), who are building innovative protective gear and ventilators.

Ai-Ping Hu, Ph.D., senior research engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute, will discuss intelligent automation of bird deboning at the Poultry Tech Summit. Hu says that deboning can conceptualized into three parts: characterizing the non-uniform bird product (using 3D image processing), predicting anatomical structure (i.e., the shoulder joint), and obtaining an optimal cutting path (for the robot to execute to extract the most yield from the bird carcass). 

The Poultry Tech Summit is presented by WATT Global Media in collaboration with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, USPOULTRY, and the University of Georgia with support from the World’s Poultry Science Association. The event will be held November 20-22 at the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center. Registration is now open.

The collaboration builds on Georgia Tech’s autonomous mobility and infrastructure work, which spans the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, the Office of Parking and Transportation Services, and Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation.

North Fayette Elementary School will soon participate in a study of lightning in partnership with the Severe Storms Research Center at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

Jon Duke is a Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Duke was just named as one of the members on the task force announced by Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan which will address health care access and cost.

The Tri-Service Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration – a new, exclusive event for the media, acquisition community, and industry influencers – will be held on January 29, 2020, hosted by the Georgia Tech Research Institute at the GTRI Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia.