{"id":211985,"date":"2025-04-21T05:12:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T10:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/chinese-scientists-create-a-9-cm-untethered-terrestrial-aerial-microrobot-capable-of-transforming-into-various-desired-shapes"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T10:12:41","slug":"chinese-scientists-create-a-9-cm-untethered-terrestrial-aerial-microrobot-capable-of-transforming-into-various-desired-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/chinese-scientists-create-a-9-cm-untethered-terrestrial-aerial-microrobot-capable-of-transforming-into-various-desired-shapes","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists create a 9-cm untethered terrestrial-aerial microrobot capable of transforming into various desired shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-scientists-create-a-9-cm-untethered-terrestrial-aerial-microrobot-capable-of-transforming-into-various-desired-shapes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Chinese research team has developed the world\u2019s smallest and lightest known untethered terrestrial-aerial microrobot capable of transforming into various desired shapes, expected to replace humans in performing a wide range of tasks in complex and hazardous environments.<\/p>\n<p>The robot measuring 9 centimeters in length and 25 grams in weight can operate flexibly on land and in the air with a top speed of up to 1.6 meters per second on the ground, according to the research team from Tsinghua University.<\/p>\n<p>The research team has recently developed a thin-film-shaped small-scale actuator that enables microrobots to continuously transform their shape and \u201clock\u201d into specific configurations \u2014 much like a Transformer \u2014 enhancing their ability to adapt to different environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese research team has developed the world\u2019s smallest and lightest known untethered terrestrial-aerial microrobot capable of transforming into various desired shapes, expected to replace humans in performing a wide range of tasks in complex and hazardous environments. The robot measuring 9 centimeters in length and 25 grams in weight can operate flexibly on land [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211985","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=211985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}