{"id":74530,"date":"2017-12-16T10:44:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T18:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/why-most-future-robots-wont-look-like-robots"},"modified":"2017-12-17T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:00:24","slug":"why-most-future-robots-wont-look-like-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/why-most-future-robots-wont-look-like-robots","title":{"rendered":"Why (most) future robots won\u2019t look like robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-most-future-robots-wont-look-like-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Material-enabled robotics\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-most-future-robots-wont-look-like-robots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"559\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>A future robot\u2019s body could combine soft actuators and stiff structure, with distributed computation throughout \u2014 an example of the new \u201cmaterial robotics.\u201d (credit: Nikolaus Correll\/University of Colorado)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>Future robots won\u2019t be limited to humanoid form (like Boston Robotics\u2019 formidable <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fRj34o4hN4I?t=50\" target=\"_blank\">backflipping Atlas)<\/a>. They\u2019ll be invisibly embedded everywhere in common objects.<\/p>\n<p>Such as a shoe that can intelligently support your gait, change stiffness as you\u2019re running or walking, and adapt to different surfaces \u2014 or even help you do backflips.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/why-most-future-robots-wont-look-like-robots\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/why-most-future-robots-wont-look-like-robots<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A future robot\u2019s body could combine soft actuators and stiff structure, with distributed computation throughout \u2014 an example of the new \u201cmaterial robotics.\u201d (credit: Nikolaus Correll\/University of Colorado) Future robots won\u2019t be limited to humanoid form (like Boston Robotics\u2019 formidable backflipping Atlas). They\u2019ll be invisibly embedded everywhere in common objects. Such as a shoe that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74530","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\/74530","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=74530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74554,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74530\/revisions\/74554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}