{"id":30979,"date":"2016-10-12T21:46:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T04:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/forget-cybermen-and-iron-man-the-next-generation-of-soft-flexible-robots-is-here"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:22:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:22:39","slug":"forget-cybermen-and-iron-man-the-next-generation-of-soft-flexible-robots-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/forget-cybermen-and-iron-man-the-next-generation-of-soft-flexible-robots-is-here","title":{"rendered":"Forget Cybermen and Iron Man: the next generation of soft, flexible robots is here"},"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\/p-u7tudZAR4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, robots have been machine-like, rigid, fast and efficient contraptions, much like Doctor Who\u2019s Cybermen and Tony Stark\u2019s Iron Man suit.<\/p>\n<p>But, researchers at \u00c9cole polytechnique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne\u2019s (EPFL) Reconfigurable Robotics Lab (RRL) have turned this notion on its head with their soft robots.<\/p>\n<p>These flexible, reconfigurable and air-actuated robots behave like human muscles and could be used in physical rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/factor-tech.com\/robotics\/24522-forget-cybermen-and-iron-man-the-next-generation-of-soft-flexible-robots-is-here\/\">http:\/\/factor-tech.com\/robotics\/24522-forget-cybermen-and-ir...s-is-here\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally, robots have been machine-like, rigid, fast and efficient contraptions, much like Doctor Who\u2019s Cybermen and Tony Stark\u2019s Iron Man suit. But, researchers at \u00c9cole polytechnique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne\u2019s (EPFL) Reconfigurable Robotics Lab (RRL) have turned this notion on its head with their soft robots. These flexible, reconfigurable and air-actuated robots behave like human muscles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30979","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60088,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30979\/revisions\/60088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}