{"459151":{"#nid":"459151","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Robots Learning Judo Techniques are Falling Down Without Exploding","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe best and worst part of the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals was\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/humanoids\/darpa-robotics-challenge-robots-falling\u0022\u003Ewatching all of those huge expensive humanoids topple over in a series of epic faceplants\u003C\/a\u003E. Faceplants are called faceplants because you\u2019re planting your face into the ground as a means of breaking your fall, which usually also breaks your face, among other things. This tends to happen when you\u2019re unprepared for falling, which with most robots, is 100 percent of the time. Now researchers at Georgia Tech want to teach\u0026nbsp;humanoid robots to fall more safely with techniques adapted from judo, which might protect them enough to actually be able to get up again.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28124","created_gmt":"2015-10-14 19:37:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:46","author":"Tyler Sharp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"\u00a0Linda Wills","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/humanoids\/robots-judo-techniques-to-fall-down-without-exploding","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"458561":{"id":"458561","type":"image","title":"Falling Robot","body":null,"created":"1449256347","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:12:27","changed":"1475895204","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:24","alt":"Falling Robot","file":{"fid":"203545","name":"screen_shot_2015-10-13_at_3.19.42_pm.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2015-10-13_at_3.19.42_pm_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2015-10-13_at_3.19.42_pm_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":114364,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/screen_shot_2015-10-13_at_3.19.42_pm_0.png?itok=7XrWj0qi"}}},"media_ids":["458561"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"144641","name":"Falling Robots"},{"id":"2296","name":"Karen Liu"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"169054","name":"Sehoon Ha"}],"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":""}}}