{"id":196450,"date":"2024-09-20T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/combining-soft-artificial-muscles-with-a-rigid-magnetic-exoskeleton-to-create-building-blocks-for-versatile-robots"},"modified":"2024-09-20T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T18:25:36","slug":"combining-soft-artificial-muscles-with-a-rigid-magnetic-exoskeleton-to-create-building-blocks-for-versatile-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/combining-soft-artificial-muscles-with-a-rigid-magnetic-exoskeleton-to-create-building-blocks-for-versatile-robots","title":{"rendered":"Combining soft artificial muscles with a rigid, magnetic exoskeleton to create building blocks for versatile robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M9QT-2Ms1UY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed hexagon-shaped robotic components, called modules, that can be snapped together LEGO-style into high-speed robots that can be rearranged for different capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The team of researchers from the Robotic Materials Department at MPI-IS, led by Christoph Keplinger, integrated artificial muscles into hexagonal exoskeletons that are embedded with magnets, allowing for quick mechanical and electrical connections.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s work, \u201cHexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.adl3546\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Robotics<\/i> on September 18, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed hexagon-shaped robotic components, called modules, that can be snapped together LEGO-style into high-speed robots that can be rearranged for different capabilities. The team of researchers from the Robotic Materials Department at MPI-IS, led by Christoph Keplinger, integrated artificial muscles into hexagonal exoskeletons that are embedded [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196450","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=196450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}