{"id":158134,"date":"2023-02-15T18:25:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T00:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/lego-like-universal-connector-makes-assembling-stretchable-devices-a-snap-2"},"modified":"2023-02-15T18:25:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T00:25:18","slug":"lego-like-universal-connector-makes-assembling-stretchable-devices-a-snap-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/lego-like-universal-connector-makes-assembling-stretchable-devices-a-snap-2","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lego-like\u2019 universal connector makes assembling stretchable devices a snap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lego-like-universal-connector-makes-assembling-stretchable-devices-a-snap3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team led by researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a universal connector to assemble stretchable devices simply and quickly, in a \u201cLego-like\u201d manner.<\/p>\n<p>Stretchable devices including soft robots and wearable health care devices are assembled using several different modules with different material characteristics\u2014some soft, some rigid, and some encapsulated.<\/p>\n<p>However, the commercial pastes (glue), currently used to connect the modules often either fail to transmit mechanical and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrical+signals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical signals<\/a> reliably when deformed or break easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team led by researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a universal connector to assemble stretchable devices simply and quickly, in a \u201cLego-like\u201d manner. Stretchable devices including soft robots and wearable health care devices are assembled using several different modules with different material characteristics\u2014some soft, some rigid, and some encapsulated. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158134","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}