{"648545":{"#nid":"648545","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A Year, Alone, In the Trees","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/magnus-egerstedt-0\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMagnus Egerstedt\u003C\/a\u003E thought his robot would survive a few months. That was the goal when he and his team of Georgia Tech College of Engineering students installed their three-foot SlothBot in the Atlanta Botanical Garden\u0026rsquo;s tree canopy in May of last year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut soon, the hot summer days gave way to cooler temperatures and the machine found itself amid leaves colored by fall. SlothBot would successfully endure Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s chilly winter nights and managed to hang around for its first birthday in the spring. Finally, 13 months after it went up, SlothBot has come down.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/year-alone-trees\u0022\u003ERead the full article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"SlothBot, a robot that monitors pollution, temperature and other environmental conditions, survives for 13 months in the tree canopy of the Atlanta Botanical Garden."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESlothBot, a robot that monitors pollution, temperature and other environmental conditions, survives for 13 months in the tree canopy\u0026nbsp;of the Atlanta Botanical Garden.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SlothBot, a robot that monitors pollution, temperature and other environmental conditions, survives for 13 months in the tree canopy of the Atlanta Botanical Garden."}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2021-07-05 21:22:40","changed_gmt":"2021-07-05 21:26:01","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648546":{"id":"648546","type":"image","title":"SlothBot Research Team","body":null,"created":"1625520326","gmt_created":"2021-07-05 21:25:26","changed":"1625520326","gmt_changed":"2021-07-05 21:25:26","alt":"Research team from left to right: Carmen Jimenez, Hannah Phillips, and Magnus Egerstedt ","file":{"fid":"246201","name":"SlothBotBG.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/SlothBotBG.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/SlothBotBG.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":162271,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/SlothBotBG.jpg?itok=S5kRT4qV"}}},"media_ids":["648546"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/jason.maderer@coe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejason.maderer@coe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jason.maderer@coe.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}