{"671482":{"#nid":"671482","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Will 2024 be a \u0027good year\u0027 for blimps?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBlimps are indeed part of this \u0022Innovations\u0022 roundup, but it\u0027s the collaborative abilities of army ants that have led engineers from Northwestern University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology to speculate that the insects\u0027 behavioral principles and brains could one day be used to program swarms of robots. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/david-hu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (with an adjunct appointment in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E), is quoted regarding his research on fire ant raft constructions during flooding, comparing the insects to neurons in one large brain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBlimps are indeed part of this \u0022Innovations\u0022 roundup, but it\u0027s the collaborative abilities of army ants that have led engineers from Northwestern University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology to speculate that the insects\u0027 behavioral principles and brains could one day be used to program swarms of robots. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/david-hu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (with an adjunct appointment in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E), is quoted regarding his research on fire ant raft constructions during flooding, comparing the insects to neurons in one large brain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-12-07 22:04:38","changed_gmt":"2023-12-15 17:58:18","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Mastercard Newsroom","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.mastercard.com\/news\/perspectives\/2023\/will-2024-be-a-good-year-for-blimps\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"14545","name":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"186929","name":"fire ants rafts"}],"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":""}}}