{"id":156320,"date":"2023-01-26T13:28:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T19:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/watch-a-sea-cucumber-inspired-shapeshifting-robot-escape-jail"},"modified":"2023-01-26T13:28:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T19:28:17","slug":"watch-a-sea-cucumber-inspired-shapeshifting-robot-escape-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/watch-a-sea-cucumber-inspired-shapeshifting-robot-escape-jail","title":{"rendered":"Watch a sea cucumber-inspired shapeshifting robot escape jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-a-sea-cucumber-inspired-shapeshifting-robot-escape-jail2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It can even liquefy and move through small spaces, just like T-1000 in Terminator 2.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists created sea cucumber-inspired miniature robots that can quickly shift between liquid and solid states.<\/p>\n<p>They built the new robots with a material they dubbed a \u201cmagnetoactive solid-liquid phase transitional machine.\u201d The robots are also magnetic and can conduct electricity, as per a press release.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Wang and Pan et al.<\/p>\n<p>During a mobility test, the researchers put the robot through an obstacle course, which saw it liquefy and move through jail bars. The move recalls the robot T-1000 from Terminator 2, which was able to liquefy and change shape at will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can even liquefy and move through small spaces, just like T-1000 in Terminator 2. An international team of scientists created sea cucumber-inspired miniature robots that can quickly shift between liquid and solid states. They built the new robots with a material they dubbed a \u201cmagnetoactive solid-liquid phase transitional machine.\u201d The robots are also magnetic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156320","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\/156320","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=156320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}