{"id":135822,"date":"2022-02-19T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/self-healing-materials-for-robotics-made-from-jelly-and-salt"},"modified":"2022-02-19T06:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T14:22:18","slug":"self-healing-materials-for-robotics-made-from-jelly-and-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/self-healing-materials-for-robotics-made-from-jelly-and-salt","title":{"rendered":"Self-healing materials for robotics made from \u2018jelly\u2019 and salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-healing-materials-for-robotics-made-from-jelly-and-salt.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed self-healing, biodegradable, 3D-printed materials that could be used in the development of realistic artificial hands and other soft robotics applications.<\/p>\n<p>The low-cost jelly-like materials, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, can sense strain, temperature and humidity. And unlike earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/self-healing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">self-healing<\/a> robots, they can also partially repair themselves at room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>The results are reported in the journal NPG Asia Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed self-healing, biodegradable, 3D-printed materials that could be used in the development of realistic artificial hands and other soft robotics applications. The low-cost jelly-like materials, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, can sense strain, temperature and humidity. And unlike earlier self-healing robots, they can also partially repair themselves at room temperature. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135822","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}