{"id":173057,"date":"2023-09-29T10:33:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/researchers-create-novel-robots-that-run-on-light-and-radio-waves"},"modified":"2023-09-29T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:33:43","slug":"researchers-create-novel-robots-that-run-on-light-and-radio-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/researchers-create-novel-robots-that-run-on-light-and-radio-waves","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create novel robots that run on light and radio waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-novel-robots-that-run-on-light-and-radio-waves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The robot can drive on various surfaces such as concrete or packed soil and carry up to three times its own weight in equipment such as a camera or sensors.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a tiny robot that can move on its own, powered by light and radio waves. It can carry a camera, a sensor, or a Bluetooth device and transmit data over long distances. It can navigate through different terrains and environments and follow light sources to keep going. It sounds like science fiction, right?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Source: Mark Stone\/University of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Meet MilliMobile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robot can drive on various surfaces such as concrete or packed soil and carry up to three times its own weight in equipment such as a camera or sensors. Imagine a tiny robot that can move on its own, powered by light and radio waves. It can carry a camera, a sensor, or a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173057","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}