{"id":215500,"date":"2025-06-06T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/husker-engineers-advance-work-on-intelligent-self-healing-technology"},"modified":"2025-06-06T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:02:24","slug":"husker-engineers-advance-work-on-intelligent-self-healing-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/husker-engineers-advance-work-on-intelligent-self-healing-technology","title":{"rendered":"Husker engineers advance work on intelligent, self-healing technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/husker-engineers-advance-work-on-intelligent-self-healing-technology.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>Husker engineer Eric Markvicka, along with graduate students Ethan Krings and Patrick McManigal, recently presented a paper at the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Atlanta, Georgia, that sets forth a systems-level approach for a soft robotics technology that can identify damage from a puncture or extreme pressure, 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<p>#Repost<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A Husker 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","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. Husker engineer Eric Markvicka, along with graduate students Ethan Krings and Patrick McManigal, recently presented a paper at the prestigious IEEE International Conference on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215500","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\/215500","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}