{"id":209955,"date":"2025-03-28T13:10:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/engineers-develop-hybrid-robot-that-balances-strength-and-flexibility-and-can-screw-in-a-lightbulb"},"modified":"2025-03-28T13:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:10:52","slug":"engineers-develop-hybrid-robot-that-balances-strength-and-flexibility-and-can-screw-in-a-lightbulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/engineers-develop-hybrid-robot-that-balances-strength-and-flexibility-and-can-screw-in-a-lightbulb","title":{"rendered":"Engineers develop hybrid robot that balances strength and flexibility\u2014and can screw in a lightbulb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-develop-hybrid-robot-that-balances-strength-and-flexibility-and-can-screw-in-a-lightbulb.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How many robots does it take to screw in a lightbulb? The answer is more complicated than you might think. New research from Northeastern University upends the riddle by making a robot that is both flexible and sensitive enough to handle the lightbulb, and strong enough to apply the necessary torque.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we found is that by thinking about the bodies of robots and how we can make new materials for them, we can actually make a robot that has the benefits of both rigid and soft robots,\u201d says Jeffrey Lipton, assistant professor of mechanical and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/industrial+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">industrial engineering<\/a> at Northeastern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s flexible, extendable and compliant like an elephant trunk or octopus tentacle, but can also apply torques like a traditional industrial robot,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many robots does it take to screw in a lightbulb? The answer is more complicated than you might think. New research from Northeastern University upends the riddle by making a robot that is both flexible and sensitive enough to handle the lightbulb, and strong enough to apply the necessary torque. \u201cWhat we found is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209955","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}