{"id":121216,"date":"2021-04-04T01:22:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T08:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/roboreptile-climbs-like-a-real-lizard"},"modified":"2021-04-04T01:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T08:22:26","slug":"roboreptile-climbs-like-a-real-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/roboreptile-climbs-like-a-real-lizard","title":{"rendered":"Roboreptile climbs like a real lizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/roboreptile-climbs-like-a-real-lizard2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While a Mars rover can explore where no person has gone before, a smaller robot at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia could climb to new heights by mimicking the movements of a lizard.<\/p>\n<p>Simply named X-4, the university\u2019s climbing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/robot\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">robot<\/a> has allowed a team of researchers to test and replicate how a lizard moves in the hope that their findings will inspire next-generation robotics design for disaster relief, remote surveillance and possibly even space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/scientific+paper\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">scientific paper<\/a> published today in <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/i>, the team states that <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/lizards\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lizards<\/a> have optimized their movement across difficult terrain over many years of evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While a Mars rover can explore where no person has gone before, a smaller robot at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia could climb to new heights by mimicking the movements of a lizard. Simply named X-4, the university\u2019s climbing robot has allowed a team of researchers to test and replicate how a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121216","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=121216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}