{"674144":{"#nid":"674144","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Physicists Design Wormlike, Limbless Robots to Navigate Obstacle Courses, Aid in Search and Rescue Efforts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. Robotics Student in Robotics \u003Cstrong\u003ETianyu Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E and Postdoctoral Physics Scholar \u003Cstrong\u003EChristopher Pierce\u003C\/strong\u003E are developing snakelike, limbless robots. The robots could come in handy in search-and-rescue situations, where they could navigate collapsed buildings to find and assist survivors \u2014 and could readily move through confined and cluttered spaces such as debris fields, where walking or wheeled robots and human rescuers tend to fail.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. Robotics Student in Robotics \u003Cstrong\u003ETianyu Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E and Postdoctoral Physics Scholar \u003Cstrong\u003EChristopher Pierce\u003C\/strong\u003E are developing snakelike, limbless robots. The robots could come in handy in search-and-rescue situations, where they could navigate collapsed buildings to find and assist survivors \u2014 and could readily move through confined and cluttered spaces such as debris fields, where walking or wheeled robots and human rescuers tend to fail.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34528","created_gmt":"2024-04-11 14:06:33","changed_gmt":"2024-04-11 18:09:50","author":"jhunt7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Conversation","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/we-designed-wormlike-limbless-robots-that-navigate-obstacle-courses-they-could-be-used-for-search-and-rescue-one-day-220828","dateline":{"date":"2024-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"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":""}}}