{"id":23498,"date":"2016-03-14T08:48:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/watch-100-grams-of-robot-pull-4000-pounds-of-car"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:41:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:41:19","slug":"watch-100-grams-of-robot-pull-4000-pounds-of-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/watch-100-grams-of-robot-pull-4000-pounds-of-car","title":{"rendered":"Watch 100 Grams of Robot Pull 4,000 Pounds of Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-100-grams-of-robot-pull-4000-pounds-of-car.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stanford\u2019s \u03bcTug minibots are on a roll lately.<\/p>\n<p>The latest battery of experiments at Stanford\u2019s Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab dealt with harnessing the power of ants in robot form\u2014 specifically, researchers hoped to replicate ants\u2019 ability to work together to haul very heavy objects. In the experiments, robots that jump or walk with a quick, jerky force were quickly determined to be inefficient in groups, while the \u03bcTugs won out due to the longer duration of pulling force they were able to create with their tiny winches. If you\u2019ve ever played tug of war than this strategy already makes intrinsic sense. Not only could the \u03bcTug smimc ants through teamwork, but they anchored themselves to the ground with an adhesive borrowed from gecko toes.<\/p>\n<p>To prove just how powerful the robots are, scientists took a group of six \u03bcTugs\u2014which <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-tiny-robot-can-pull-weights-2-000-times-heavier-th-1700346282\">can pull up to 52 pounds each <\/a>\u2014and had them move a full-sized car with a passenger inside. Did we mention the passenger was the <a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/abstractAuthors.jsp?arnumber=7407333&contentType=Early+Access+Articles\" target=\"_blank\">author of the research paper<\/a>? When those things start self-replicating, he\u2019s going to be the first one they come after.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/watch-100-grams-of-robot-pull-4-000-pounds-of-car-1764720029\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/watch-100-grams-of-robot-pull-4&#45;000-p...1764720029<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford\u2019s \u03bcTug minibots are on a roll lately. The latest battery of experiments at Stanford\u2019s Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab dealt with harnessing the power of ants in robot form\u2014 specifically, researchers hoped to replicate ants\u2019 ability to work together to haul very heavy objects. In the experiments, robots that jump or walk with a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23498","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62415,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23498\/revisions\/62415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}