{"id":161129,"date":"2023-03-27T18:23:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T23:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/engineering-breakthrough-in-softbotics"},"modified":"2023-03-27T18:23:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T23:23:20","slug":"engineering-breakthrough-in-softbotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/engineering-breakthrough-in-softbotics","title":{"rendered":"Engineering breakthrough in softbotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E4nBsJGkK7Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntroducing the first soft material that can maintain a high enough electrical conductivity to support power hungry devices.\u201d and self-healing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The newest development in softbotics will have a transformative impact on robotics, electronics, and medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.cmu.edu\/directory\/bios\/majidi-carmel.html\">Carmel Majidi<\/a> has engineered a soft material with metal-like conductivity and self-healing properties that, for the first time, can support power-hungry devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoftbotics is about seamlessly integrating robotics into everyday life, putting humans at the center,\u201d explained Majidi, a professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meche.engineering.cmu.edu\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mechanical engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers work to integrate robots into our everyday lives with the hope of improving our mobility, health, and well-being. For example, patients might one day recover from surgery at home thanks to a wearable robot monitoring aid. To integrate robots seamlessly, they need to be able to move with us, withstand damage, and have electrical functionality without being encased in a hard structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIntroducing the first soft material that can maintain a high enough electrical conductivity to support power hungry devices.\u201d and self-healing. The newest development in softbotics will have a transformative impact on robotics, electronics, and medicine. Carmel Majidi has engineered a soft material with metal-like conductivity and self-healing properties that, for the first time, can support [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161129","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}