{"id":171741,"date":"2023-09-10T18:24:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T23:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/this-self-destructing-robot-vanishes-into-a-puddle-of-goo"},"modified":"2023-09-10T18:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T23:24:30","slug":"this-self-destructing-robot-vanishes-into-a-puddle-of-goo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/this-self-destructing-robot-vanishes-into-a-puddle-of-goo","title":{"rendered":"This Self-Destructing Robot Vanishes Into a Puddle of Goo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-self-destructing-robot-vanishes-into-a-puddle-of-goo3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an effort to create robots capable of controlling their own life-cycles, researchers have developed squishy little devices that can melt themselves into a puddle of goo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have mimicked death in a life cycle where the robot could end itself,\u201d Seoul National University engineer Min-Ha Oh <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2023-08-soft-robots-self-destruct.html\">told<\/a> Peter Grad at Tech Xplore.<\/p>\n<p>This \u2018death\u2019 is triggered by internal ultraviolet LEDs that destabilize the chemical composition of the robot. This process takes about an hour though, so it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2363713-spy-robot-investigates-the-enemy-and-then-melts-into-an-oily-puddle\/\">likely we have a few decades before<\/a> we\u2019ll see robots being employed as the kinds of vanishing spies proposed by the researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to create robots capable of controlling their own life-cycles, researchers have developed squishy little devices that can melt themselves into a puddle of goo. \u201cWe have mimicked death in a life cycle where the robot could end itself,\u201d Seoul National University engineer Min-Ha Oh told Peter Grad at Tech Xplore. This \u2018death\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171741","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}