{"id":146946,"date":"2022-09-24T05:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T10:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/a-miraculous-soft-robot-has-the-power-to-split-into-smaller-units-and-reassemble-back-to-its-original-size"},"modified":"2022-09-24T05:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T10:22:54","slug":"a-miraculous-soft-robot-has-the-power-to-split-into-smaller-units-and-reassemble-back-to-its-original-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/a-miraculous-soft-robot-has-the-power-to-split-into-smaller-units-and-reassemble-back-to-its-original-size","title":{"rendered":"A miraculous soft robot has the power to split into smaller units and reassemble back to its original size"},"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\/ifLvpxMuos8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Virtualphotoo\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Since ferrofluids are easy to control and offer great flexibility with fast motion, they are often preferred by scientists for producing shape-shifting soft robots. In 2015, a team of researchers in South Korea created ferrofluid soft robots capable of mimicking an amoeba\u2019s movements. Another group of researchers from Arizona State University developed a miniature shape-altering robot in 2021 using ferrofluids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtualphotoo\/iStock. Since ferrofluids are easy to control and offer great flexibility with fast motion, they are often preferred by scientists for producing shape-shifting soft robots. In 2015, a team of researchers in South Korea created ferrofluid soft robots capable of mimicking an amoeba\u2019s movements. Another group of researchers from Arizona State University developed a miniature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146946","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}