{"id":10023,"date":"2014-02-03T07:19:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10023"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:09:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:09:56","slug":"researcher-takes-a-muscular-approach-to-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/researcher-takes-a-muscular-approach-to-robotics","title":{"rendered":"Researcher takes a muscular approach to robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Webner \u2014 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<br \/>\n<br \/> During his childhood in Korea, Yong-Lae Park developed a love for robotics, using the nuts, bolts and metal bars from science kits to build mechanical versions of his favorite cartoon characters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobotics is very interesting and attractive because you build it and it moves on its own,\u201d Mr. Park said.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Mr. Park, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Robotics Institute, retains his childhood passion but directs it toward more mature creations. He\u2019s part of a team that has designed a robotic device to restore movement for sufferers of neuromuscular disorders that affect the foot and ankle, such as cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and drop foot.<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; ; background-; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/health\/2014\/02\/03\/Researcher-takes-a-muscular-approach-to-robotics\/stories\/201402030021\" target=\"_blank\">Read more: <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Webner \u2014 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette During his childhood in Korea, Yong-Lae Park developed a love for robotics, using the nuts, bolts and metal bars from science kits to build mechanical versions of his favorite cartoon characters. \u201cRobotics is very interesting and attractive because you build it and it moves on its own,\u201d Mr. Park [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65048,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions\/65048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}