{"649939":{"#nid":"649939","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Wriggling Worm Blobs Help Scientists Build Better Robots","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientists are learning a lot about swarm intelligence by studying worms, which\u0026nbsp;have been observed grouping together in balls\u0026nbsp;and acting like a liquid. Researchers\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/118\/6\/e2010542118\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Epublished an article\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;after studying the behaviors of the California blackworm \u0026mdash; and designed a robotic model to mirror the worms\u0026rsquo; behavior. The researchers include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDan Goldman,\u003C\/a\u003E Dunn Family Professor, School of Physics; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/engineering.nd.edu\/faculty\/yasemin-ozkan-aydin\/\u0022\u003EYasemin Ozkan-Aydin,\u003C\/a\u003E former Georgia Tech postdoctoral fellow,\u0026nbsp;now\u0026nbsp;assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame;\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/people\/saad-bhamla\u0022\u003EM. Saad Bhamla\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-08-20 19:39:34","changed_gmt":"2021-08-20 19:39:34","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"student poster competition","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ripleys.com\/weird-news\/wriggling-worm-blobs-help-scientists-build-better-robots\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"47881","name":"Dan Goldman"},{"id":"188694","name":"California black worms"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"188695","name":"swarm intelligence"}],"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":""}}}