{"id":220786,"date":"2025-08-23T08:23:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scorpion-inspired-pressure-sensors-let-robots-feel-their-surroundings"},"modified":"2025-08-23T08:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:23:28","slug":"scorpion-inspired-pressure-sensors-let-robots-feel-their-surroundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scorpion-inspired-pressure-sensors-let-robots-feel-their-surroundings","title":{"rendered":"Scorpion-inspired pressure sensors let robots feel their surroundings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scorpion-inspired-pressure-sensors-let-robots-feel-their-surroundings2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nature, the master engineer, is coming to our rescue again. Inspired by scorpions, scientists have created new pressure sensors that are both highly sensitive and able to work across a wide variety of pressures.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure sensors are key components in an array of applications, from <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/medical+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical devices<\/a> and industrial control systems to robotics and human-machine interfaces. Silicon-based piezoresistive sensors are among the most common types used today, but they have a significant limitation. They can\u2019t be super sensitive to changes and work well across a range of pressures at the same time. Often, you have to choose one over the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature, the master engineer, is coming to our rescue again. Inspired by scorpions, scientists have created new pressure sensors that are both highly sensitive and able to work across a wide variety of pressures. Pressure sensors are key components in an array of applications, from medical devices and industrial control systems to robotics and human-machine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220786","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}