{"id":207553,"date":"2025-03-01T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T21:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-just-created-shape-shifting-robots-that-flow-like-liquid-and-harden-like-steel"},"modified":"2025-03-01T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T21:11:57","slug":"scientists-just-created-shape-shifting-robots-that-flow-like-liquid-and-harden-like-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-just-created-shape-shifting-robots-that-flow-like-liquid-and-harden-like-steel","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Created Shape-Shifting Robots That Flow Like Liquid and Harden Like Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-created-shape-shifting-robots-that-flow-like-liquid-and-harden-like-steel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have designed a robotic material that transforms like a living organism.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by embryos, these disk-shaped robots use magnets, motors, and light to shift between rigid and fluid states. The result? A self-healing, shape-shifting system that could change how we build and interact with materials.<\/p>\n<p>Robots That Behave Like Materials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have designed a robotic material that transforms like a living organism. Inspired by embryos, these disk-shaped robots use magnets, motors, and light to shift between rigid and fluid states. The result? A self-healing, shape-shifting system that could change how we build and interact with materials. Robots That Behave Like Materials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207553","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=207553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}