{"id":136345,"date":"2022-03-03T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/new-approach-to-flexible-robotics-and-metamaterials-design-mimics-nature-encourages-sustainability"},"modified":"2022-03-03T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:36:09","slug":"new-approach-to-flexible-robotics-and-metamaterials-design-mimics-nature-encourages-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/new-approach-to-flexible-robotics-and-metamaterials-design-mimics-nature-encourages-sustainability","title":{"rendered":"New approach to flexible robotics and metamaterials design mimics nature, encourages sustainability"},"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\/ouE7_kXTNZ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new study challenges the conventional approach to designing soft robotics and a class of materials called metamaterials by utilizing the power of computer algorithms. Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Technical University of Denmark can now build multimaterial structures without dependence on human intuition or trial-and-error to produce highly efficient actuators and energy absorbers that mimic designs found in nature.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by Illinois civil and environmental engineering professor Shelly Zhang, uses optimization theory and an <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/algorithm\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">algorithm<\/a>-based design process called <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/topology+optimization\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">topology optimization<\/a>. Also known as digital synthesis, the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/design+process\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">design process<\/a> builds composite structures that can precisely achieve complex prescribed mechanical responses.<\/p>\n<p>The study results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study challenges the conventional approach to designing soft robotics and a class of materials called metamaterials by utilizing the power of computer algorithms. Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Technical University of Denmark can now build multimaterial structures without dependence on human intuition or trial-and-error to produce highly efficient actuators and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136345","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}