{"id":193513,"date":"2024-07-25T04:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T09:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/study-shows-elephant-trunk-dexterity-can-be-mimicked-with-minimal-actuators"},"modified":"2024-07-25T04:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T09:25:17","slug":"study-shows-elephant-trunk-dexterity-can-be-mimicked-with-minimal-actuators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/study-shows-elephant-trunk-dexterity-can-be-mimicked-with-minimal-actuators","title":{"rendered":"Study shows elephant trunk dexterity can be mimicked with minimal actuators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-shows-elephant-trunk-dexterity-can-be-mimicked-with-minimal-actuators.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trunk of an elephant is among the versatile appendages in the animal kingdom. Now a research team has shown that most of its dexterity can be reproduced with a model using just three \u201cmuscles.\u201d And they built a physical model to do just that. The findings are published in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trunk of an elephant is among the versatile appendages in the animal kingdom. Now a research team has shown that most of its dexterity can be reproduced with a model using just three \u201cmuscles.\u201d And they built a physical model to do just that. The findings are published in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193513","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}