{"id":23104,"date":"2016-03-04T02:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T10:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/robot-shows-off-flexible-octopus-like-skin"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:59:07","slug":"robot-shows-off-flexible-octopus-like-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/robot-shows-off-flexible-octopus-like-skin","title":{"rendered":"Robot shows off flexible, octopus-like skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robot-shows-off-flexible-octopus-like-skin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TweetScientists from Cornell University have come up with a new form of technology that holds a lot of promise in the field of electronics, where stretchy screens and other products are shaping up to be the wave of the future. Scientists from Cornell University have come up with a new form of technology that holds a lot of promise in the field of electronics, where stretchy screens and other products are shaping up to be the wave of the future.<\/p>\n<p>The Cornell study published yesterday in<em> Science<\/em> takes a look at a pliable type of \u201cskin\u201d that changes colors and flexes and stretches based on the pressure it senses. This skin is said to be similar to that of squid and octopus, but, according to Cornell Organic Robotics Lab researcher Chris Larson, it\u2019s \u201cmuch, much, much more stretchable than human skin or octopus skin.\u201d He compared the stretchy skin to something akin to a \u201crubber band or a balloon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernreaders.com\/robot-octopus-skin\/41190\/melissa-taylor\">http:\/\/www.modernreaders.com\/robot-octopus-skin\/41190\/melissa-taylor<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetScientists from Cornell University have come up with a new form of technology that holds a lot of promise in the field of electronics, where stretchy screens and other products are shaping up to be the wave of the future. Scientists from Cornell University have come up with a new form of technology that holds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23104","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50947,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23104\/revisions\/50947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}