{"id":183380,"date":"2024-02-22T19:27:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T01:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-have-created-the-worlds-smallest-lightest-and-fastest-fully-functional-micro-robots"},"modified":"2024-02-22T19:27:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T01:27:55","slug":"scientists-have-created-the-worlds-smallest-lightest-and-fastest-fully-functional-micro-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-have-created-the-worlds-smallest-lightest-and-fastest-fully-functional-micro-robots","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Created the World\u2019s Smallest, Lightest, and Fastest Fully Functional Micro-Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-created-the-worlds-smallest-lightest-and-fastest-fully-functional-micro-robots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, developed at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/washington-state-university\/\">Washington State University<\/a>, are the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created.<\/p>\n<p>Such miniature robots could someday be used for work in areas such as artificial pollination, search and rescue, environmental monitoring, micro-fabrication, or robotic-assisted surgery. Reporting on their work in the proceedings of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society\u2019s International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, the mini-bug weighs in at eight milligrams while the water strider weighs 55 milligrams. Both can move at about six millimeters a second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, developed at Washington State University, are the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created. Such miniature robots could someday be used for work in areas such as artificial pollination, search and rescue, environmental monitoring, micro-fabrication, or robotic-assisted surgery. Reporting on their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183380","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}