{"id":195214,"date":"2024-08-25T23:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T04:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/hydrogel-material-shows-unexpected-learning-abilities"},"modified":"2024-08-25T23:30:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T04:30:31","slug":"hydrogel-material-shows-unexpected-learning-abilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/hydrogel-material-shows-unexpected-learning-abilities","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogel material shows unexpected learning abilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hydrogel-material-shows-unexpected-learning-abilities.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a study published in Cell Reports Physical Science (\u201cElectro-Active Polymer Hydrogels Exhibit Emergent Memory When Embodied in a Simulated Game-Environment\u201d), a team led by Dr Yoshikatsu Hayashi demonstrated that a simple hydrogel \u2014 a type of soft, flexible material \u2014 can learn to play the simple 1970s computer game \u2018Pong\u2019. The hydrogel, interfaced with a computer simulation of the classic game via a custom-built multi-electrode array, showed improved performance over time.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Hayashi, a biomedical engineer at the University of Reading\u2019s School of Biological Sciences, said: Our research shows that even very simple materials can exhibit complex, adaptive behaviours typically associated with living systems or sophisticated AI.<\/p>\n<p>This opens up exciting possibilities for developing new types of \u2018smart\u2019 materials that can learn and adapt to their environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study published in Cell Reports Physical Science (\u201cElectro-Active Polymer Hydrogels Exhibit Emergent Memory When Embodied in a Simulated Game-Environment\u201d), a team led by Dr Yoshikatsu Hayashi demonstrated that a simple hydrogel \u2014 a type of soft, flexible material \u2014 can learn to play the simple 1970s computer game \u2018Pong\u2019. The hydrogel, interfaced with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195214","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=195214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}