{"375121":{"#nid":"375121","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"This Robot Falls Like A Cat","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOur future robot overlords could\u0026nbsp;have feline cunning and cat-like reflexes thanks in part to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~karenliu\/bingham_inertiabot_IROS2014.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eresearch\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;being conducted at Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Karen Liu and her team have been studying how cats and athletic humans optimize their body position in mid-air to achieve a softer landing, and then applying those\u0026nbsp;learnings to optimize a falling bot.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis type of mid-fall agility to orient a body to reduce impact comes naturally to cats but is something humans aren\u2019t natively\u0026nbsp;gifted with. \u201cThe human brain cannot compute fast enough to determine the optimal sequence of poses the body needs to reach during a long-distance fall to achieve a safe landing,\u201d the researchers note.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-09 17:06:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:52","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Quantum and Semiconductor Physics","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/11\/14\/robots-that-fall-like-cats\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}