{"id":35603,"date":"2017-03-26T05:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T12:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/a-printable-sensor-laden-skin-for-robots-or-an-airplane"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:12:41","slug":"a-printable-sensor-laden-skin-for-robots-or-an-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/a-printable-sensor-laden-skin-for-robots-or-an-airplane","title":{"rendered":"A printable, sensor-laden \u2018skin\u2019 for robots (or an airplane)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-printable-sensor-laden-skin-for-robots-or-an-airplane2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"goldbug\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-printable-sensor-laden-skin-for-robots-or-an-airplane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"237\"><b>Illustration of 3D-printed sensory composite (credit: Subramanian Sundaram)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers have designed a radical new method of creating flexible, printable electronics that combine sensors and processing circuitry.<\/p>\n<p>Covering a robot \u2014 or an airplane or a bridge, for example \u2014 with sensors will require a technology that is both flexible and cost-effective to manufacture in bulk. To demonstrate the feasibility of their new method, the researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csail.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory<\/a> have designed and built a 3D-printed device that responds to mechanical stresses by changing the color of a spot on its surface.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/a-printable-sensor-laden-skin-for-robots-or-an-airplane\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/a-printable-sensor-laden-skin-for-...n-airplane<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration of 3D-printed sensory composite (credit: Subramanian Sundaram) MIT researchers have designed a radical new method of creating flexible, printable electronics that combine sensors and processing circuitry. Covering a robot \u2014 or an airplane or a bridge, for example \u2014 with sensors will require a technology that is both flexible and cost-effective to manufacture in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603","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\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56472,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603\/revisions\/56472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}