{"id":25610,"date":"2016-05-12T00:32:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T07:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/from-robotic-hands-to-gecko-feet-pentagons-darpa-research-agency-showcases-future-tech"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:00","slug":"from-robotic-hands-to-gecko-feet-pentagons-darpa-research-agency-showcases-future-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/from-robotic-hands-to-gecko-feet-pentagons-darpa-research-agency-showcases-future-tech","title":{"rendered":"From robotic hands to \u2018gecko feet\u2019, Pentagon\u2019s DARPA research agency showcases future tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-robotic-hands-to-gecko-feet-pentagons-darpa-research-agency-showcases-future-tech.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fun stuff.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Johnny Matheny\u2019s handshake is friendly, confident and firm \u2014 though not in the bone-crushing manner favoured by some of the alpha types here in the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>What is remarkable is that Matheny\u2019s proffered hand is not actually his. It is part of a robotic prosthesis researchers hope one day could help transform the lives of countless amputees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the beginning, you had to think pretty hard about individual movements,\u201d Matheny said as he demonstrated his mastery of the black metallic limb, clenching the fist and swiveling his wrist in a natural-looking motion.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/1943957\/robotic-hands-gecko-feet-pentagons-darpa-research\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/...a-research<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun stuff. Johnny Matheny\u2019s handshake is friendly, confident and firm \u2014 though not in the bone-crushing manner favoured by some of the alpha types here in the Pentagon. What is remarkable is that Matheny\u2019s proffered hand is not actually his. It is part of a robotic prosthesis researchers hope one day could help transform the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610","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=25610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67514,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions\/67514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}