{"id":147418,"date":"2022-10-02T17:24:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T22:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/smart-microrobots-walk-autonomously"},"modified":"2022-10-02T17:24:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T22:24:48","slug":"smart-microrobots-walk-autonomously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/smart-microrobots-walk-autonomously","title":{"rendered":"Smart microrobots walk autonomously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-microrobots-walk-autonomously.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A collaborative effort has succeeded in upgrading solar-powered microbots \u2013 each of which now has their own built-in, miniature computer \u2013 allowing them to walk autonomously and without being externally controlled.<\/p>\n<p>Cornell researchers and others had previously developed microscopic machines able to crawl, swim, walk, and fold themselves up. However, these always had \u201cstrings\u201d attached; to generate motion, they needed wires to provide electrical current, or laser beams focused directly onto specific parts of robots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore, we literally had to manipulate these \u2018strings\u2019 in order to get any kind of response from the robot,\u201d explained Itai Cohen, Professor at Cornell\u2019s Department of Physics. \u201cBut now that we have these brains on board, it\u2019s like taking the strings off the marionette. It\u2019s like when Pinocchio gains consciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collaborative effort has succeeded in upgrading solar-powered microbots \u2013 each of which now has their own built-in, miniature computer \u2013 allowing them to walk autonomously and without being externally controlled. Cornell researchers and others had previously developed microscopic machines able to crawl, swim, walk, and fold themselves up. However, these always had \u201cstrings\u201d attached; [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147418","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\/147418","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\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}