{"id":35567,"date":"2017-03-25T00:22:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T07:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-weird-world-of-cyborg-animals-is-here"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:07:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:07:49","slug":"the-weird-world-of-cyborg-animals-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-weird-world-of-cyborg-animals-is-here","title":{"rendered":"The Weird World of Cyborg Animals 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\/d8t27M66ESA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Roboticists frequently turn to nature for inspiration for their inventions, reverse engineering the traits that evolution has developed over millennia. Others are taking a shortcut by simply integrating modern technology with living animals.<\/p>\n<p>The idea may seem crazy, but animals and machines are not so different. Just as a network of wires carry electrical signals between a robot\u2019s sensors, processing units and motors, the flow of action potentials around our nervous system connects our sensory organs, brain and muscles.<\/p>\n<p>But while there are similarities, the natural world has come up with some intricate solutions to problems that engineers are nowhere near replicating in silicon. That has prompted some scientists to try and piggyback on evolution\u2019s innovations by building part-animal, part-machine cyborgs. Here\u2019s a rundown of some of the most eye-catching examples.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/03\/24\/the-weird-world-of-cyborg-animals-is-here\/\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/03\/24\/the-weird-world-of-cyborg-animals-is-here\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roboticists frequently turn to nature for inspiration for their inventions, reverse engineering the traits that evolution has developed over millennia. Others are taking a shortcut by simply integrating modern technology with living animals. The idea may seem crazy, but animals and machines are not so different. Just as a network of wires carry electrical signals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35567","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=35567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58318,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35567\/revisions\/58318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}