Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines

Designing Robots that Help Humans Live, Work, and Play better across a lifetime.

IRIM’s mission is to ignite collaborations across Georgia Tech and beyond to imagine, design, and deploy robotic systems that enhance human capabilities to sense, think, and act, improving how people live, work, and play throughout their lives.

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IRIM @ IROS 2026

GT research will be everywhere at this year's IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

IROS 2026 will bring together researchers, engineers, and industry leaders in Pittsburgh, a city at the forefront of robotics innovation, home to world-renowned institutions and cutting-edge autonomous vehicle companies. IROS is one of the largest and most impactful robotics research conferences worldwide.

Check the GT@IROS webpage for a handy quick glance guide of everything we're showing off in Pittsburgh.

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New Benchmark Measures Memory Capabilities of VLM-Powered Robots

To improve robot performance and advance memory capabilities needed for reliable home use, Georgia Tech researchers have developed a new benchmark to evaluate the memory capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs).

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