{"id":221920,"date":"2025-09-16T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/matryoshka-doll-like-robot-changes-its-shape-in-real-time-and-in-situ"},"modified":"2025-09-16T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:10:10","slug":"matryoshka-doll-like-robot-changes-its-shape-in-real-time-and-in-situ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/matryoshka-doll-like-robot-changes-its-shape-in-real-time-and-in-situ","title":{"rendered":"Matryoshka doll-like robot changes its shape in real time and in situ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/matryoshka-doll-like-robot-changes-its-shape-in-real-time-and-in-situ2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until now, when scientists created magnetic robots, their magnetization profiles were generally fixed, enabling only a specific type of shape programming capability using applied external magnetic fields. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have now proposed a new magnetization reprogramming method that can drastically expand the complexity and diversity of the shape-programming capabilities of such robots.<\/p>\n<p>They built a soft robot with a magnetization profile that can be altered in real time and in situ. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09459-0\" target=\"_blank\">findings<\/a> are published in Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Prof. Dr. Metin Sitti in the Physical Intelligence (PI) Department at MPI-IS in collaboration with Ko\u00e7 University in Istanbul, Turkey, the team stacked several tubes inside each other like Matryoshka dolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, when scientists created magnetic robots, their magnetization profiles were generally fixed, enabling only a specific type of shape programming capability using applied external magnetic fields. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have now proposed a new magnetization reprogramming method that can drastically expand the complexity and diversity of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221920","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=221920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}