{"id":141991,"date":"2022-07-11T01:03:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T06:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/lazy-flossers-rejoice-tiny-robot-shapeshifters-will-brush-and-floss-for-you"},"modified":"2022-07-11T01:03:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T06:03:26","slug":"lazy-flossers-rejoice-tiny-robot-shapeshifters-will-brush-and-floss-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/lazy-flossers-rejoice-tiny-robot-shapeshifters-will-brush-and-floss-for-you","title":{"rendered":"Lazy Flossers Rejoice! Tiny Robot Shapeshifters Will Brush and Floss for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lazy-flossers-rejoice-tiny-robot-shapeshifters-will-brush-and-floss-for-you2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If flossing is, in short, the bane of your existence, a group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania might have an ingenious solution for you.<\/p>\n<p>The team has developed the ultimate no-hands dental care in the form of a <a href=\"https:\/\/penntoday.upenn.edu\/news\/penn-dental-engineering-shapeshifting-microrobots-can-brush-and-floss-teeth\" class=\"\">swarm of shapeshifting microrobots<\/a>, ready to treat and remove tooth decay-inducing bacteria and plaque from your filthy, unflossed teeth.<\/p>\n<p>In simple terms, the petite and multifunctional robo-dentists do the work of brushing, flossing, and rinsing, all without the tediousness and, in some cases, the challenges of manual oral care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If flossing is, in short, the bane of your existence, a group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania might have an ingenious solution for you. The team has developed the ultimate no-hands dental care in the form of a swarm of shapeshifting microrobots, ready to treat and remove tooth decay-inducing bacteria and plaque from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141991","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}