{"id":23539,"date":"2016-03-15T12:33:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/tiny-robot-ants-pull-car-with-teamwork"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:06:07","slug":"tiny-robot-ants-pull-car-with-teamwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/tiny-robot-ants-pull-car-with-teamwork","title":{"rendered":"Tiny robot ants pull car with teamwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-robot-ants-pull-car-with-teamwork.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is extremely interesting and innovating to me. Why? Just imagine if your car (even a self driving car) your car breaks down on a road somewhere 10 to 25 miles away from the nearest gas station or town. And, you have a backup system that alerts you in the car that it has to switch over to tow mode, and engages a robotic pull system and set your flashers on then tows you to the nearest gas station or police station; etc.? No more tow bills, no more fears to the elderly or others being exposed on the side of the road. BTW \u2014 the car engine keeps the car microbot\/s charged up.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A team of tiny robot ants pull a car that is thousands of times their weight as part of an experiment at Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-35810224\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-35810224<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is extremely interesting and innovating to me. Why? Just imagine if your car (even a self driving car) your car breaks down on a road somewhere 10 to 25 miles away from the nearest gas station or town. And, you have a backup system that alerts you in the car that it has to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23539","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\/23539","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=23539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68012,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539\/revisions\/68012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}