{"644638":{"#nid":"644638","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Researchers Are Studying These Worm Blobs to Build Robots","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWired Magazine burrows deeper into how two Georgia Tech researchers from the School of\u0026nbsp;Physics studied California blackworms\u0026#39; collective behavior. The idea is to see how that behavior could lead to building intelligent swarms of robots, or programmable\u0026nbsp;active matter -- materials that can change shape, just like the blobs of blackworms studied by professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDan Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E and postdoctoral researcher \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=1dP-4M0AAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003EYasemin Ozkan-Aydin.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-02-24 19:16:58","changed_gmt":"2021-02-24 19:16:58","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"in solidarity","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/researchers-are-studying-these-worm-blobs-to-build-robots\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"47881","name":"Dan Goldman"},{"id":"187107","name":"Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin"},{"id":"187108","name":"blackwork"},{"id":"186555","name":"active matter"},{"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":""}}}