{"id":172812,"date":"2023-09-26T00:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T05:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/combustion-powers-bug-sized-robots-to-leap-lift-and-race"},"modified":"2023-09-26T00:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T05:25:43","slug":"combustion-powers-bug-sized-robots-to-leap-lift-and-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/combustion-powers-bug-sized-robots-to-leap-lift-and-race","title":{"rendered":"Combustion powers bug-sized robots to leap, lift and race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/combustion-powers-bug-sized-robots-to-leap-lift-and-race.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Call it the big bang for bug-sized robots.<\/p>\n<p>Cornell researchers combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-scale quadrupedal robot that is powered by combustion and can outrace, outlift, outflex and outleap its electric-driven competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it the big bang for bug-sized robots. Cornell researchers combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-scale quadrupedal robot that is powered by combustion and can outrace, outlift, outflex and outleap its electric-driven competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-cosmology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172812","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=172812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}