{"id":157574,"date":"2023-02-10T22:22:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T04:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/a-new-material-called-a-mechanical-neural-network-can-learn-and-change-its-physical-properties"},"modified":"2023-02-10T22:22:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T04:22:40","slug":"a-new-material-called-a-mechanical-neural-network-can-learn-and-change-its-physical-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/a-new-material-called-a-mechanical-neural-network-can-learn-and-change-its-physical-properties","title":{"rendered":"A new material called a mechanical neural network can learn and change its physical properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-material-called-a-mechanical-neural-network-can-learn-and-change-its-physical-properties2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/us\/topics\/research-brief-83231\">Research Brief<\/a> is a short take about interesting academic work.<\/em><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157574","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\/157574","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}