{"id":112496,"date":"2020-09-04T11:29:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/scientists-train-spider-to-jump-on-demand-in-bid-to-launch-army-of-pest-fighting-robots"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:29:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:29:29","slug":"scientists-train-spider-to-jump-on-demand-in-bid-to-launch-army-of-pest-fighting-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/scientists-train-spider-to-jump-on-demand-in-bid-to-launch-army-of-pest-fighting-robots","title":{"rendered":"Scientists train spider to jump on demand in bid to launch army of pest-fighting robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-train-spider-to-jump-on-demand-in-bid-to-launch-army-of-pest-fighting-robots3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SPIDERS often make people jump but a bunch of clever scientists have managed to train one to jump on demand.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers managed to teach the spider \u2013 nicknamed Kim \u2013 to jump from different heights and distances so they could film the arachnid\u2019s super-springy movements.<\/p>\n<p>The study is part of a research programme by the University of Manchester which aims to create a new class of micro-robots agile enough to jump like acrobatic spiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 SPIDERS often make people jump but a bunch of clever scientists have managed to train one to jump on demand. Researchers managed to teach the spider \u2013 nicknamed Kim \u2013 to jump from different heights and distances so they could film the arachnid\u2019s super-springy movements. The study is part of a research programme [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112496","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}