{"625595":{"#nid":"625595","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech researchers use cockroaches to help robots move better","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have developed a measurement that should help robot-makers improve how much control their bots have over their movement. Their\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-019-11613-y\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Efindings appear\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the August issue of the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;It works a bit like this: a cockroach has a highly attuned central nervous system coordinating its movement - as a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2019\/08\/22\/scurrying-roaches-help-researchers-steady-staggering-robots\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech article\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;about the research described it, \u0026quot;neurological signals guiding six impeccably evolved legs.\u0026quot; A stick bug\u0026#39;s legs function more independently, reacting to the environment as it moves. The work was carried out in the lab of \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/simon-sponberg\u0022\u003ESimon Sponberg\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E. It was also featured in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/robotics-hardware\/video-friday-mit-robotic-thread-brain\u0022\u003EIEEE Spectrum\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-09-04 15:56:56","changed_gmt":"2019-09-04 16:14:00","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/tech\/science\/robots-cockroaches-research-study-georgia-tech\/85-f60d0472-0bd5-42e3-b04e-848a97070330","dateline":{"date":"2019-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":[],"media_ids":[],"groups":[{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"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":""}}}