{"id":149455,"date":"2022-11-04T14:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T19:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-create-edible-drone-built-of-rice-cakes-and-gelatin-that-can-save-lives"},"modified":"2022-11-04T14:23:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T19:23:47","slug":"scientists-create-edible-drone-built-of-rice-cakes-and-gelatin-that-can-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-create-edible-drone-built-of-rice-cakes-and-gelatin-that-can-save-lives","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create edible drone built of rice cakes and gelatin that can save lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-edible-drone-built-of-rice-cakes-and-gelatin-that-can-save-lives2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The size of the wing, made of compressed puffed rice, depends on the recipient\u2019s nutrition requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The IEEE\/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Kyoto last week saw an ingenious creation presented by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. Their paper described a drone made from rice cakes.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, this was no light matter. Titled \u2018Towards Edible Drones for Rescue Missions: Design and Flight of Nutritional Wings,\u2019 by Bokeon Kwak, Jun Shintake, Lu Zhang, and Dario Floreano from EPFL, the paper detailed a drone that could \u201cboost its payload of food from 30 percent to 50 percent of its mass\u201d, according to a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The size of the wing, made of compressed puffed rice, depends on the recipient\u2019s nutrition requirements. The IEEE\/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Kyoto last week saw an ingenious creation presented by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. Their paper described a drone made from rice cakes. Mind you, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149455","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}