{"602502":{"#nid":"602502","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe latest discovery from Georgia Tech physicists may seem like something straight out of \u003Cem\u003EBlack Mirror\u003C\/em\u003E. But don\u0026#39;t worry, it\u0026#39;s not that sinister. School of Physics\u0026#39;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDan Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E worked with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026#39;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~randall\/\u0022\u003EDana Randall\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;and doctoral student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/william-savoie\u0022\u003EWilliam Savoie \u003C\/a\u003Eto \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1711.01327\u0022\u003Edevelop an algorithm\u003C\/a\u003E that orders\u0026nbsp;simple robots to \u0026quot;swarm,\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;or move in complex ways as a group. Imagine the birth of the supervillain Sandman in \u003Cem\u003ESpider-Man 3\u003C\/em\u003E, from loose grains of sand skittering across the desert and then congealing into the shape of a human. The possiblities for these \u0026quot;smarticles\u0026quot; are endless. This story has been reproduced in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/ldquo-smarticle-rdquo-robot-swarms-turn-random-behavior-into-collective-intelligence\/?sf182454355=1\u0022\u003EScientific American\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34651","created_gmt":"2018-02-16 21:21:26","changed_gmt":"2018-02-20 16:41:14","author":"mrosten3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Metz Mayor","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/smart-swarms-of-robots-seek-better-algorithms-20180214\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602441":{"id":"602441","type":"image","title":"Dana Randall and Dan Goldman in Goldman\u2019s lab at Georgia Tech.","body":null,"created":"1518727714","gmt_created":"2018-02-15 20:48:34","changed":"1518727714","gmt_changed":"2018-02-15 20:48:34","alt":"Georgia Tech\u2019s Dana Randall (College of Computing) and Dan Goldman (College of Sciences) ","file":{"fid":"229608","name":"Dana_Dan_2000.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dana_Dan_2000.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dana_Dan_2000.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":439467,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Dana_Dan_2000.jpg?itok=BTiup64g"}},"602503":{"id":"602503","type":"image","title":"William Savoie","body":null,"created":"1518816162","gmt_created":"2018-02-16 21:22:42","changed":"1518816162","gmt_changed":"2018-02-16 21:22:42","alt":"","file":{"fid":"229631","name":"william savoie.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/william%20savoie.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/william%20savoie.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":367337,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/william%20savoie.jpg?itok=8xP50jbE"}}},"media_ids":["602441","602503"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"177134","name":"William Savoie"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"47881","name":"Dan Goldman"}],"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":""}}}