{"602440":{"#nid":"602440","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology, physicists run experiments with robots that look as though they came from the dollar store. The robots can\u0026rsquo;t move through space. They can\u0026rsquo;t communicate. Mostly they flap their little arms, like beetles stuck on their backs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBut put a lot of these objects together and you get something from nothing: They hit each other, nudge each other and tangle with each other. And eventually, they start to work as a unit. Researchers are learning how to control these systems so that they function in a manner similar to swarms of bees or colonies of ants.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Dana Randall (College of Computing) and Dan Goldman (College of Sciences) discuss their research: a combination of algorithms, computer science and physical experiments in their \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/smart-swarms-of-robots-seek-better-algorithms-20180214\/\u0022\u003Erecent Quanta Magazine article\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27343","created_gmt":"2018-02-15 20:46:55","changed_gmt":"2018-02-16 14:01:24","author":"Jennifer Salazar","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Metz Mayor","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/smart-swarms-of-robots-seek-better-algorithms-20180214\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602441":{"id":"602441","type":"image","title":"Dana Randall and Dan Goldman in Goldman\u2019s lab at Georgia Tech.","body":null,"created":"1518727714","gmt_created":"2018-02-15 20:48:34","changed":"1518727714","gmt_changed":"2018-02-15 20:48:34","alt":"Georgia Tech\u2019s Dana Randall (College of Computing) and Dan Goldman (College of Sciences) ","file":{"fid":"229608","name":"Dana_Dan_2000.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dana_Dan_2000.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dana_Dan_2000.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":439467,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Dana_Dan_2000.jpg?itok=B7E3VTgV"}}},"media_ids":["602441"],"groups":[{"id":"545781","name":"Institute for Data Engineering and Science"}],"categories":[{"id":"142","name":"City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"177123","name":"smarticles"},{"id":"177124","name":"swarm behavior"},{"id":"5660","name":"algorithms"}],"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":""}}}