{"id":215196,"date":"2025-06-01T21:06:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/engineers-develop-self-healing-muscle-for-robots"},"modified":"2025-06-01T21:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:06:47","slug":"engineers-develop-self-healing-muscle-for-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/engineers-develop-self-healing-muscle-for-robots","title":{"rendered":"Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-develop-self-healing-muscle-for-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln engineering team is another step closer to developing soft robotics and wearable systems that mimic the ability of human and plant skin to detect and self-heal injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Engineer Eric Markvicka, along with graduate students Ethan Krings and Patrick McManigal, recently presented a <a href=\"https:\/\/smr.unl.edu\/papers\/Krings_et_al-2025-ICRA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee-ras.org\/conferences-workshops\/fully-sponsored\/icra\" target=\"_blank\">IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation<\/a> in Atlanta, Georgia, that sets forth a systems-level approach for a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/soft+robotics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">soft robotics<\/a> technology that can identify damage from a puncture or <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/extreme+pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">extreme pressure<\/a>, pinpoint its location and autonomously initiate self-repair.<\/p>\n<p>The paper was among the 39 of 1,606 submissions selected as an ICRA 2025 Best Paper Award finalist. It was also a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award and in the mechanism and design category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln engineering team is another step closer to developing soft robotics and wearable systems that mimic the ability of human and plant skin to detect and self-heal injuries. Engineer Eric Markvicka, along with graduate students Ethan Krings and Patrick McManigal, recently presented a paper at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215196","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=215196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}