{"id":151616,"date":"2022-12-01T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T23:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/mit-researchers-creating-robots-that-give-birth-to-other-robots"},"modified":"2022-12-01T17:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T23:22:56","slug":"mit-researchers-creating-robots-that-give-birth-to-other-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/mit-researchers-creating-robots-that-give-birth-to-other-robots","title":{"rendered":"MIT researchers creating robots that give birth to other robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-researchers-creating-robots-that-give-birth-to-other-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers are building swarms of tiny robots that have built-in intelligence, allowing them to build structures, vehicles, or even larger versions of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The subunit of the robot, which is being developed at MIT\u2019s Center for Bits and Atoms, is called a voxel and is capable of carrying power and data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we\u2019re building these structures, you have to build in intelligence,\u201d MIT Professor and CBA Director Neil Gershenfeld said in a statement. \u201cWhat emerged was the idea of structural electronics \u2014 of making voxels that transmit power and data as well as force.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers are building swarms of tiny robots that have built-in intelligence, allowing them to build structures, vehicles, or even larger versions of themselves. The subunit of the robot, which is being developed at MIT\u2019s Center for Bits and Atoms, is called a voxel and is capable of carrying power and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151616","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}