{"674706":{"#nid":"674706","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Worms Inspire Wiggly Robots That Navigate All Landscapes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWorms and snakes seem to wiggle their way across varying environments without needing to learn the terrain. In more complex landscapes, they move even faster, using obstacles to propel themselves forward like a person pulling themselves up a ladder. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey don\u2019t alter their body-bending pattern no matter how dense the obstacles are,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ty-wang.github.io\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETianyu Wang\u003C\/a\u003E, a robotics Ph.D. student in the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines and the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. \u201cWe were curious if this process was passively controlled, meaning they don\u2019t have to \u2018think\u2019 about how to deal with obstacles \u2014 we consider this a kind of \u2018mechanical intelligence.\u2019\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo determine if this passive control hypothesis was correct, a team of roboticists, physicists, and engineers led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca data-entity-substitution=\u0022canonical\u0022 data-entity-type=\u0022node\u0022 data-entity-uuid=\u0022929f5776-4dc9-4e3b-a9af-7578c6fd76d0\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/node\/2807\u0022\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E, the Dunn Family Professor in the School of Physics, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca data-entity-substitution=\u0022canonical\u0022 data-entity-type=\u0022node\u0022 data-entity-uuid=\u0022b576aa4a-10b2-41c8-99fd-8027f447b195\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/node\/2856\u0022\u003EHang Lu\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and Cecil J. \u201cPete\u201d Silas Chair in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, developed a limbless robot. This robot helped them better understand the biology that makes worms and snakes so agile. The result is a robot that could be vital for missions in which humans and wheeled robots are limited, such as search and rescue, industrial maintenance, and planetary exploration.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/feature\/wiggly-robots\u0022\u003ERead more about what they discovered at Georgia Tech Research News.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETo determine if this passive control hypothesis was correct, a team of roboticists, physicists, and engineers led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca data-entity-substitution=\u0022canonical\u0022 data-entity-type=\u0022node\u0022 data-entity-uuid=\u0022929f5776-4dc9-4e3b-a9af-7578c6fd76d0\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/node\/2807\u0022\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E, the Dunn Family Professor in the School of Physics, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca data-entity-substitution=\u0022canonical\u0022 data-entity-type=\u0022node\u0022 data-entity-uuid=\u0022b576aa4a-10b2-41c8-99fd-8027f447b195\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/node\/2856\u0022\u003EHang Lu\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and Cecil J. \u201cPete\u201d Silas Chair in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, developed a limbless robot. This robot helped them better understand the biology that makes worms and snakes so agile. The result is a robot that could be vital for missions in which humans and wheeled robots are limited, such as search and rescue, industrial maintenance, and planetary exploration.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Worms and snakes seem to wiggle their way across varying environments without needing to learn the terrain. In more complex landscapes, they move even faster, using obstacles to propel themselves forward like a person pulling themselves up a ladder.  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