{"id":228991,"date":"2026-01-14T01:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/fluid-gears-rotate-without-teeth-offering-new-mechanical-flexibility"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:29:17","slug":"fluid-gears-rotate-without-teeth-offering-new-mechanical-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/fluid-gears-rotate-without-teeth-offering-new-mechanical-flexibility","title":{"rendered":"Fluid gears rotate without teeth, offering new mechanical flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mpLTiInM05Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of New York University scientists has created a gear mechanism that relies on fluids to generate rotation. The invention holds potential for a new generation of mechanical devices that offer greater flexibility and durability than do existing gears\u2014whose origins date back to ancient China.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/m6ft-ll2c\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe invented new types of gears that engage by spinning up fluid rather than interlocking teeth\u2014and we discovered new capabilities for controlling the rotation speed and even direction,\u201d says Jun Zhang, a professor of mathematics and physics at NYU and NYU Shanghai and the senior author of the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of New York University scientists has created a gear mechanism that relies on fluids to generate rotation. The invention holds potential for a new generation of mechanical devices that offer greater flexibility and durability than do existing gears\u2014whose origins date back to ancient China. The breakthrough is reported in the journal Physical Review [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228991","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=228991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}