{"id":135649,"date":"2022-02-14T21:24:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T05:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/shape-shifting-material-morphs-robot-from-driving-to-flying"},"modified":"2022-02-14T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T05:24:13","slug":"shape-shifting-material-morphs-robot-from-driving-to-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/shape-shifting-material-morphs-robot-from-driving-to-flying","title":{"rendered":"Shape-shifting material morphs robot from driving to flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shape-shifting-material-morphs-robot-from-driving-to-flying2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new shape-shifting material <a href=\"https:\/\/vtx.vt.edu\/articles\/2022\/02\/eng-bartlett-morphing-drone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">out of Virginia Tech<\/a> can be used to give robots the power to transform smoothly between different shapes \u2014 like going from a drivable robot to a flying drone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge: <\/strong>Most of today\u2019s robots are really good at one function \u2014 drones are designed to fly, but they can\u2019t swim, and wheeled bots can drive, but they can\u2019t fly.<\/p>\n<p>The few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/technology\/air\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exceptions<\/a> typically use complex systems of motors, gears, and hinges to reconfigure themselves into different shapes suited for different tasks, but every extra part is a new potential point of failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new shape-shifting material out of Virginia Tech can be used to give robots the power to transform smoothly between different shapes \u2014 like going from a drivable robot to a flying drone. The challenge: Most of today\u2019s robots are really good at one function \u2014 drones are designed to fly, but they can\u2019t swim, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135649","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}