{"id":170966,"date":"2023-08-31T04:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T09:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/tiny-shape-shifting-robot-can-squish-itself-into-tight-spaces"},"modified":"2023-08-31T04:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T09:25:43","slug":"tiny-shape-shifting-robot-can-squish-itself-into-tight-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/tiny-shape-shifting-robot-can-squish-itself-into-tight-spaces","title":{"rendered":"Tiny, shape-shifting robot can squish itself into tight spaces"},"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\/wwrckOT4VwY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Coming to a tight spot near you: CLARI, the little, squishable robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps\u2014with a bit of inspiration from the world of bugs.<\/p>\n<p>CLARI, which stands for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/lab\/jayaram\/research\/design-clari\">Compliant Legged Articulated Robotic Insect<\/a>, comes from a team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder. It also has the potential to aid <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/first+responders\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">first responders<\/a> after major disasters in an entirely new way.<\/p>\n<p>Several of these robots can easily fit in the palm of your hand, and each weighs less than a Ping Pong ball. CLARI can transform its <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/shape\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">shape<\/a> from square to long and slender when its surroundings become cramped, said Heiko Kabutz, a doctoral student in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming to a tight spot near you: CLARI, the little, squishable robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps\u2014with a bit of inspiration from the world of bugs. CLARI, which stands for Compliant Legged Articulated Robotic Insect, comes from a team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder. It also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170966","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}