{"375431":{"#nid":"375431","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"New RFID technology helps robots find household objects","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMobile robots could be much more useful in homes, if they could locate people, places and objects. Today\u2019s robots usually see the world with cameras and lasers, which have difficulty reliably recognizing things and can miss objects that are hidden in clutter. A complementary way robots can \u201csense\u201d what is around them is through the use of small ultra-high frequency radio-frequency identification (UHF RFID) tags. Inexpensive self-adhesive tags can be stuck on objects, allowing an RFID-equipped robot to search a room for the correct tag\u2019s signal, even when the object is hidden out of sight. Once the tag is detected, the robot knows the object it\u2019s trying to find isn\u2019t far away.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-09 17:44:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:49","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"japanese exchange","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2014\/09\/22\/new-rfid-technology-helps-robots-find-household-objects","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-24T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}}}