{"id":111619,"date":"2020-08-19T23:25:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/biomorphic-batteries-could-provide-72x-more-energy-for-robots"},"modified":"2020-08-19T23:25:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:25:56","slug":"biomorphic-batteries-could-provide-72x-more-energy-for-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/biomorphic-batteries-could-provide-72x-more-energy-for-robots","title":{"rendered":"Biomorphic batteries could provide 72x more energy for robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EwNkCAvaPtE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This approach to increasing capacity will be particularly important as robots shrink to the microscale and below\u2014scales at which current stand-alone batteries are too big and inefficient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobot designs are restricted by the need for batteries that often occupy 20% or more of the available space inside a robot, or account for a similar proportion of the robot\u2019s weight,\u201d said Nicholas Kotov, the Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Engineering, who led the research.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for mobile robots are exploding, from delivery drones and bike-lane take-out bots to robotic nurses and warehouse robots. On the micro side, researchers are exploring swarm robots that can self-assemble into larger devices. Multifunctional structural batteries can potentially free up space and reduce weight, but until now they could only supplement the main battery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This approach to increasing capacity will be particularly important as robots shrink to the microscale and below\u2014scales at which current stand-alone batteries are too big and inefficient. \u201cRobot designs are restricted by the need for batteries that often occupy 20% or more of the available space inside a robot, or account for a similar proportion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111619","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}