{"id":73338,"date":"2017-10-16T17:42:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T00:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/liquid-metal-brings-soft-robotics-a-step-closer"},"modified":"2017-10-16T17:42:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T00:42:32","slug":"liquid-metal-brings-soft-robotics-a-step-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/liquid-metal-brings-soft-robotics-a-step-closer","title":{"rendered":"Liquid metal brings soft robotics a step closer"},"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\/nSFwbCjnyY4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have invented a way to morph liquid metal into physical shapes.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Sussex and Swansea University have applied electrical charges to manipulate liquid metal into 2D shapes such as letters and a heart.<\/p>\n<p>The team says the findings represent an \u201cextremely promising\u201d new class of materials that can be programmed to seamlessly change shape. This open up new possibilities in \u2018soft robotics\u2019 and shape-changing displays, the researcher say.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-10-liquid-metal-soft-robotics-closer.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;10-liquid-metal-soft-robotics-closer.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have invented a way to morph liquid metal into physical shapes. Researchers at the University of Sussex and Swansea University have applied electrical charges to manipulate liquid metal into 2D shapes such as letters and a heart. The team says the findings represent an \u201cextremely promising\u201d new class of materials that can be programmed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73338","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}