{"289961":{"#nid":"289961","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Robot Builds on Insights into Atlantic Razor Clam Dynamics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Goldman, an associate professor of physics at Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved in the research, says the paper contains a \u201cbeautiful\u201d integration of biology and robotics. \u201cIt uses insights from soil physics to advance our understanding of the biomechanics behind an impressive feat of organism locomotion \u2014 digging vertically into soil,\u201d Goldman says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy discovering a principle behind this ability \u2014 localized fluidization \u2014 the researchers are able to give a robotic digging clam, RoboClam, similar abilities. And the study of the robot gives deeper insight into the important mechanics behind burrowing through localized fluidization,\u201d he adds.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-04-10 20:32:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:02","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"DDR (Disarmament","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/newsoffice.mit.edu\/2014\/robot-builds-on-insights-into-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamics","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12040","name":"Daniel Goldman"},{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"}],"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":""}}}