{"id":173527,"date":"2023-10-05T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/theres-a-new-squishy-robot-in-town-and-its-created-by-ai"},"modified":"2023-10-05T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T15:30:04","slug":"theres-a-new-squishy-robot-in-town-and-its-created-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/theres-a-new-squishy-robot-in-town-and-its-created-by-ai","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a new squishy robot in town, and it\u2019s created by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-a-new-squishy-robot-in-town-and-its-created-by-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Northwestern University.<\/p>\n<p>Like Flubber, the robot can\u2019t bolt and strike against walls at lightning speeds \u2013 but it can walk. The mechanism of the robot, written by the AI system, works when air is pumped into its body. The rubbery robot\u2019s legs contract, and continually pumping air into the robot causes it to slowly but steadily locomote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwestern University. Like Flubber, the robot can\u2019t bolt and strike against walls at lightning speeds \u2013 but it can walk. The mechanism of the robot, written by the AI system, works when air is pumped into its body. The rubbery robot\u2019s legs contract, and continually pumping air into the robot causes it to slowly but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173527","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=173527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}