{"645434":{"#nid":"645434","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Twisty Robots Reveal How Plant Roots Wind Through Soil","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E gets credit here for the idea of using a certain plant root-mimicking robot for a study on\u0026nbsp;molecular and mechanical strategies that roots\u0026nbsp;have for navigating through soil.\u0026nbsp;The School of Physics professor\u0026nbsp;knew of the robot developed by UC-Santa Barbara\u0026#39;s Elliott Hawkes,\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;and realized it would make a nice model of the real biological system,\u0026rdquo; Hawkes says. Goldman joined a team of Duke University researchers on the project.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-03-16 16:53:29","changed_gmt":"2021-03-16 16:53:29","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"reconfigurable transceivers","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/robots-plant-roots-2531342\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-03-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-03-12T00:00:00-05:00","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":"12040","name":"Daniel Goldman"},{"id":"105901","name":"plant roots"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"}],"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":""}}}