{"626633":{"#nid":"626633","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Watch a Robot Made of Robots Move Around","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGood news for small, helpless robots who long to be a part of something bigger: Researchers have found a way to create \u0026ldquo;robots made of robots\u0026rdquo; that can move around, even though the individual parts can\u0026rsquo;t travel on their own.\u0026nbsp;To create this robot horde, researchers designed several roughly iPhone-size machines called \u0026ldquo;smarticles\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash;short for smart particles\u0026mdash;that could flap their small arms up and down but could not move from place to place by themselves. They then put five of the smarticles in a plastic ring. This group of robots\u0026mdash;which the researchers call a \u0026ldquo;supersmarticle\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash;could move by itself in random directions as the individual smarticles collided with each other. Among the researchers is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDan Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Physics. Other coverage of the work may be found\u0026nbsp;at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.imeche.org\/news\/news-article\/\u0027rudimentary\u0027-flapping-robots-move-together-for-the-greater-good\u0022\u003EInstitution of Mechanical Engineers\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theengineer.co.uk\/us-army-shape-shfting-robots-smarticle\/\u0022\u003EThe Engineer\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/robotics-hardware\/georgia-tech-smarticles-stochastic-robot-swarm\u0022\u003EIEEE Spectrum\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/smarticles-robot-locomotion-2165782\/\u0022\u003EFuturity.org\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencetimes.com\/articles\/23884\/20190921\/smarticle-robots-self-assemble-into-a-robophysical-system.htm\u0022\u003EScience Times\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/robots\/a29113381\/robots-military-smarticles\/\u0022\u003EPopular Mechanics\u003C\/a\u003E, and The \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/robots-made-of-robots-modular-smarticles-combine-to-form-bigger-bots\/\u0022\u003ENewStack\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-09-23 22:16:32","changed_gmt":"2019-09-30 16:08:17","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"sustainability award","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2019\/09\/watch-robot-made-robots-move-around","dateline":{"date":"2019-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"626378":{"id":"626378","type":"image","title":"Researchers with Smarticles","body":null,"created":"1568835643","gmt_created":"2019-09-18 19:40:43","changed":"1568835643","gmt_changed":"2019-09-18 19:40:43","alt":"Researchers with smarticles","file":{"fid":"238475","name":"smarticles-004.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smarticles-004.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smarticles-004.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":506131,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/smarticles-004.jpg?itok=C1Cxwx4b"}}},"media_ids":["626378"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"177123","name":"smarticles"}],"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":""}}}