{"id":29561,"date":"2016-08-31T18:48:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T01:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/scientists-just-made-a-tiny-robotic-caterpillar-thats-powered-by-light"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:43:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:43:58","slug":"scientists-just-made-a-tiny-robotic-caterpillar-thats-powered-by-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/scientists-just-made-a-tiny-robotic-caterpillar-thats-powered-by-light","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Made A Tiny Robotic Caterpillar That\u2019s Powered By Light"},"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\/wulyMNiakpU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Warsaw have employed liquid crystalline elastomers and soft robotics techniques to make a small robot caterpillar that moves according to light conditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/exploring-worlds-oceans-seabed-soft-robotics\/\">Soft robotics<\/a> is a field that not too many are familiar with, but it has led to the creation of some stunning robots. Far from the large and rigid clunkers that are the public face of robots (think: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/videos\/boston-dynamics-atlas-meet-next-generation-humanoid-robots\/\">Atlas<\/a>), soft robotics focuses on bots with a lighter touch, mimicking the graceful movements of natural organisms.<\/p>\n<p>And mimic them they do.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-just-made-a-tiny-robotic-caterpillar-thats-powered-by-light\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-just-made-a-tiny-robotic-cate...-by-light\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Warsaw have employed liquid crystalline elastomers and soft robotics techniques to make a small robot caterpillar that moves according to light conditions. Soft robotics is a field that not too many are familiar with, but it has led to the creation of some stunning robots. Far from the large and [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29561","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=29561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60548,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29561\/revisions\/60548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}