{"628176":{"#nid":"628176","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A host of \u2018smarticles\u2019 could give soldiers shape-shifting robots for future missions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E[I]f a promising Army project proves out, a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2018\/12\/30\/darpa-program-blending-robots-in-the-squad-to-find-and-destroy-threats\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Efuture soldier\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;might deploy a host of \u0026ldquo;shape-shifting\u0026rdquo; particles that form themselves into whatever they need to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/07\/21\/soldiers-will-run-a-platoon-attack-of-robot-vehicles-from-a-bradley-in-a-test\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eaccomplish the mission\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;That would include a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/02\/26\/the-tech-it-takes-to-fight-subterranean\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Erobotic swarm\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that could become its own bridge to cross a river before reforming into another shape for the next phase of the mission, one official said....Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Northwestern University have\u0026nbsp;taken a new approach to robot building, using \u0026ldquo;smarticles\u0026rdquo; that could lead to new ways for robots to move, according to an Army release.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;People have been interested in making a certain kind of swarm robots that are composed of other robots,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDan Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, a physics professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0026ldquo;These structures could be reconfigured on demand to meet specific needs by tweaking their geometry.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-10-28 17:13:50","changed_gmt":"2019-10-28 17:36:01","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"biosignal processing","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/10\/25\/a-host-of-smarticles-could-give-soldiers-shape-shifting-robots-for-future-missions\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-10-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-10-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"626380":{"id":"626380","type":"video","title":"Shape-shifting Robot Built from Smarticles","body":null,"created":"1568835926","gmt_created":"2019-09-18 19:45:26","changed":"1568835926","gmt_changed":"2019-09-18 19:45:26","video":{"youtube_id":"GJyr2FlMF_E","video_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GJyr2FlMF_E"}},"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":["626380","626378"],"groups":[{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"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":""}}}