{"id":124992,"date":"2021-07-15T10:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T17:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/replicating-how-plants-move"},"modified":"2021-07-15T10:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T17:22:39","slug":"replicating-how-plants-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/replicating-how-plants-move","title":{"rendered":"Replicating how plants move"},"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\/mDlHGrRlNPE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Once studied by Charles Darwin, the Venus flytrap is perhaps the most famous plant that moves at high speed. But as <b>Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope <\/b>explains, researchers are still unearthing new scientific insights into plant motion, which could lead to novel, bio-inspired robotic structures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the absence of any other proof,\u201d Isaac Newton is once said to have proclaimed, \u201cthe thumb alone would convince me of God\u2019s existence.\u201d With 29 bones, 123 ligaments and 34 muscles pulling the strings, the human hand is indeed a feat of nature\u2019s engineering. It lets us write, touch, hold, feel and interact in exquisite detail with the world around us.<\/p>\n<p>To replicate the wonders of the human hand, researchers in the field of \u201csoft robotics\u201d are trying to design artificial structures made from flexible, compliant materials that can be controlled and programmed by computers. Trouble is, the hand is such a complex structure that it needs lots of computing power to be properly controlled. That\u2019s a problem when developing prosthetic hands for people who have lost an arm in, say, an accident or surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once studied by Charles Darwin, the Venus flytrap is perhaps the most famous plant that moves at high speed. But as Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope explains, researchers are still unearthing new scientific insights into plant motion, which could lead to novel, bio-inspired robotic structures. \u201cIn the absence of any other proof,\u201d Isaac Newton is once said to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124992","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}