{"id":12496,"date":"2014-10-26T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12496"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:11:42","slug":"morphing-material-could-allow-robots-to-switch-between-hard-and-soft-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/morphing-material-could-allow-robots-to-switch-between-hard-and-soft-states","title":{"rendered":"Morphing material could allow robots to switch between hard and soft states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurweil AI<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A new Terminator T-1000 robot-style material made of wax and foam \u2014 and capable of switching between hard and soft states \u2014 could be used to build morphing surgical robots that move through the body to reach a desired location without damaging organs or vessels along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Robots built from the material, described in a new paper in the journal <em>Macromolecular Materials and Engineering<\/em>, could also be used in search-and-rescue operations to squeeze through rubble looking for survivors, says <a href=\"http:\/\/hosoigroup.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anette Hosoi<\/a>, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and applied mathematics who led the research team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/morphing-material-could-allow-robots-to-switch-between-hard-and-soft-states\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurweil AI A new Terminator T-1000 robot-style material made of wax and foam \u2014 and capable of switching between hard and soft states \u2014 could be used to build morphing surgical robots that move through the body to reach a desired location without damaging organs or vessels along the way. Robots built from the material, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496","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=12496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46806,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496\/revisions\/46806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}