{"id":134022,"date":"2022-01-13T23:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T07:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/elastomer-powered-bug-bots-could-pave-way-for-futuristic-applications"},"modified":"2022-01-13T23:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T07:22:20","slug":"elastomer-powered-bug-bots-could-pave-way-for-futuristic-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/elastomer-powered-bug-bots-could-pave-way-for-futuristic-applications","title":{"rendered":"Elastomer-powered bug-bots could pave way for futuristic applications"},"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\/j_YD01uuGtE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CAMBRIDGE, Mass.\u2014Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have reported a potentially significant advance with the development of microdrones, equipped with wings powered by artificial muscles in the form of elastomer-based actuators.<\/p>\n<p>The development, claims MIT, could pave the way for futuristic applications, for example, swarms of the insect-sized robots that pollinate fields of crops or search for survivors buried in collapsed buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Key to the innovation is a novel fabrication technique that builds actuators with a hugely extended component lifespan and increases the robot\u2019s performance and payload compared to existing models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAMBRIDGE, Mass.\u2014Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have reported a potentially significant advance with the development of microdrones, equipped with wings powered by artificial muscles in the form of elastomer-based actuators. The development, claims MIT, could pave the way for futuristic applications, for example, swarms of the insect-sized robots that pollinate fields of crops or search [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134022","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}