{"id":170366,"date":"2023-08-24T05:24:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T10:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/soft-robotics-research-offers-new-route-for-weaving-soft-materials-into-3d-spatial-structures"},"modified":"2023-08-24T05:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T10:24:46","slug":"soft-robotics-research-offers-new-route-for-weaving-soft-materials-into-3d-spatial-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/soft-robotics-research-offers-new-route-for-weaving-soft-materials-into-3d-spatial-structures","title":{"rendered":"Soft robotics research offers new route for weaving soft materials into 3D spatial structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/soft-robotics-research-offers-new-route-for-weaving-soft-materials-into-3d-spatial-structures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever wonder why the most advanced robots always seem to have hard bodies? Why not more pliable ones, like humans have?<\/p>\n<p>Researchers working on so-called \u201csoft robotics\u201d attempt to incorporate the feel of living organisms into their creations. But the field hasn\u2019t taken off because the softer components haven\u2019t been easy enough to mass-produce and incorporate into the designs\u2014until now.<\/p>\n<p>University of Virginia researchers have invented a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/manufacturing+process\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">manufacturing process<\/a> for weaving <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/soft+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">soft materials<\/a> such as fabrics, rubbers and gels so that they can be compatible with gadgets, which may lead to a soft robotics revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why the most advanced robots always seem to have hard bodies? Why not more pliable ones, like humans have? Researchers working on so-called \u201csoft robotics\u201d attempt to incorporate the feel of living organisms into their creations. But the field hasn\u2019t taken off because the softer components haven\u2019t been easy enough to mass-produce and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170366","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}