{"id":166639,"date":"2023-06-29T15:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/ikea-trembles-as-scientists-invent-flat-packable-robot"},"modified":"2023-06-29T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:22:27","slug":"ikea-trembles-as-scientists-invent-flat-packable-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/ikea-trembles-as-scientists-invent-flat-packable-robot","title":{"rendered":"Ikea Trembles as Scientists Invent Flat Packable Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ikea-trembles-as-scientists-invent-flat-packable-robot2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at Switzerland\u2019s Ecole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL) have come up with an ingenious, origami-inspired robot that can turn itself into a huge number of three-dimensional shapes.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, it can fold and unfold itself like a piece of flat-pack Ikea furniture, which its creates say makes it an ideal candidate for assisting astronauts inside the cramped environment of a spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>As seen in a video demonstration, the bot \u2014 called Mori3 \u2014 can dexterously walk and pose with four flattened limbs, or even roll around once bent into a ring shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at Switzerland\u2019s Ecole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL) have come up with an ingenious, origami-inspired robot that can turn itself into a huge number of three-dimensional shapes. Best of all, it can fold and unfold itself like a piece of flat-pack Ikea furniture, which its creates say makes it an ideal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166639","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=166639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}