{"652693":{"#nid":"652693","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Engineers design 3D-printed robot \u0027ants\u0027 that can walk over leaves, link up like a centipede and call for help by themselves","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnts are among the most industrious creatures on Earth, so it\u0026#39;s only fitting that engineers would look to them for inspiration when designing small robots that can collaborate on complex tasks and maneuver through uneven territory. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E, Dunn Family Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, was part of a team that\u0026nbsp;created a simple but effective swarm of six-inch \u0026quot;robot\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;ants that were able to overcome obstacles and terrain individually, and link up to form longer chains when they couldn\u0026#39;t accomplish a task alone.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-11-10 19:40:59","changed_gmt":"2021-11-10 19:40:59","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-10179259\/3D-printed-robot-ants-link-complete-complex-tasks-call-help.html","dateline":{"date":"2021-11-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-11-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"12040","name":"Daniel Goldman"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"189334","name":"robot swarms"}],"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":""}}}