{"id":137034,"date":"2022-03-18T00:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T07:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/active-matter-breakthrough-enables-shape-shifting-next-generation-robots"},"modified":"2022-03-18T00:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T07:22:46","slug":"active-matter-breakthrough-enables-shape-shifting-next-generation-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/active-matter-breakthrough-enables-shape-shifting-next-generation-robots","title":{"rendered":"\u201cActive Matter\u201d Breakthrough Enables Shape-Shifting Next-Generation Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/active-matter-breakthrough-enables-shape-shifting-next-generation-robots.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have discovered a new way to coat soft robots in materials that allow them to move and function in a more purposeful way. The research, led by the University of Bath, is described in a paper published on March 11, 2022, in <em>Science Advances<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Authors of the study believe their breakthrough modeling on \u2018active matter\u2019 could mark a turning point in the design of robots. With further development of the concept, it may be possible to determine the shape, movement, and behavior of a soft solid not by its natural elasticity but by human-controlled activity on its surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have discovered a new way to coat soft robots in materials that allow them to move and function in a more purposeful way. The research, led by the University of Bath, is described in a paper published on March 11, 2022, in Science Advances. Authors of the study believe their breakthrough modeling on \u2018active [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137034","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}