{"id":225917,"date":"2025-11-26T01:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/soft-robots-harvest-ambient-heat-for-self-sustained-motion"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:31:12","slug":"soft-robots-harvest-ambient-heat-for-self-sustained-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/soft-robots-harvest-ambient-heat-for-self-sustained-motion","title":{"rendered":"Soft robots harvest ambient heat for self-sustained motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/soft-robots-harvest-ambient-heat-for-self-sustained-motion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A warm hand is enough to drive motion in tiny <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/anie.202518011\" target=\"_blank\">Salmonella-inspired robots<\/a> that harness molecular-level dynamic bonding.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from China and the U.S. came together to design soft robots with a coordination-motorized oscillator (CoMO) that can make self-sustained micromovements by harvesting small amounts of energy from sunlight or body heat. At the heart of this innovation is a new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-05-physicists-path-faster-flexible-robots.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">supramolecular polydimethylsiloxane<\/a> (PDMS)-based elastic polymer dynamically crosslinked by Eu<sup>3+<\/sup> at the center.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are published in Angewandte Chemie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A warm hand is enough to drive motion in tiny Salmonella-inspired robots that harness molecular-level dynamic bonding. A team of researchers from China and the U.S. came together to design soft robots with a coordination-motorized oscillator (CoMO) that can make self-sustained micromovements by harvesting small amounts of energy from sunlight or body heat. At 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":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225917","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=225917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}