{"id":149755,"date":"2022-11-09T01:25:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T07:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/materials-made-of-mechanical-neural-networks-can-learn-to-adapt-their-physical-properties"},"modified":"2022-11-09T01:25:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T07:25:01","slug":"materials-made-of-mechanical-neural-networks-can-learn-to-adapt-their-physical-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/materials-made-of-mechanical-neural-networks-can-learn-to-adapt-their-physical-properties","title":{"rendered":"Materials Made of Mechanical Neural Networks Can Learn to Adapt Their Physical Properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/materials-made-of-mechanical-neural-networks-can-learn-to-adapt-their-physical-properties2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new type of material can learn and improve its ability to deal with unexpected forces thanks to a unique lattice structure with connections of variable stiffness, as <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/scirobotics.abq7278\">described in a new paper<\/a> by my colleagues and me.<\/p>\n<p>The new material is a type of architected material, which gets its properties mainly from the geometry and specific traits of its design rather than what it is made out of. Take hook-and-loop fabric closures like Velcro, for example. It doesn\u2019t matter whether it is made from cotton, plastic or any other substance. As long as one side is a fabric with stiff hooks and the other side has fluffy loops, the material will have the sticky properties of Velcro.<\/p>\n<p>My colleagues and I based our new material\u2019s architecture on that of an artificial neural network\u2014layers of interconnected nodes that can <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/ACCESS.2019.2945545\">learn to do tasks<\/a> by changing how much importance, or weight, they place on each connection. We hypothesized that a mechanical lattice with physical nodes could be trained to take on certain mechanical properties by adjusting each connection\u2019s rigidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of material can learn and improve its ability to deal with unexpected forces thanks to a unique lattice structure with connections of variable stiffness, as described in a new paper by my colleagues and me. The new material is a type of architected material, which gets its properties mainly from the geometry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149755","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=149755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}