{"id":160338,"date":"2023-03-15T16:27:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/researchers-develop-soft-robot-that-easily-transitions-from-land-to-sea"},"modified":"2023-03-15T16:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:27:50","slug":"researchers-develop-soft-robot-that-easily-transitions-from-land-to-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/researchers-develop-soft-robot-that-easily-transitions-from-land-to-sea","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop soft robot that easily transitions from land to sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-soft-robot-that-easily-transitions-from-land-to-sea2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by nature, these soft robots received their amphibious upgrade with the help of bistable actuators.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a soft robot that can effortlessly transition from walking to swimming or from crawling to rolling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were inspired by nature to develop a robot that can perform different tasks and adapt to its environment without adding actuators or complexity,\u201d said Dinesh K. Patel, a postdoctoral fellow in the Morphing Matter Lab in the School of Computer Science\u2019s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. \u201cOur bistable actuator is simple, stable and durable, and lays the foundation for future work on dynamic, reconfigurable soft robotics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by nature, these soft robots received their amphibious upgrade with the help of bistable actuators. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a soft robot that can effortlessly transition from walking to swimming or from crawling to rolling. \u201cWe were inspired by nature to develop a robot that can perform different tasks and adapt [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160338","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=160338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}