{"id":75922,"date":"2018-02-12T13:09:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/a-cockroach-inspired-robot"},"modified":"2018-02-12T13:09:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:09:44","slug":"a-cockroach-inspired-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/a-cockroach-inspired-robot","title":{"rendered":"A cockroach-inspired robot"},"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\/382iBb5nwy8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever tried to kill an interloping cockroach, you\u2019ve probably noticed two things: they\u2019re fast and nearly invincible. While those features make roaches terrifying to most people, it\u2019s a source of bioinspiration for roboticists at the <a href=\"http:\/\/seas.harvard.edu\">Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences<\/a> (SEAS).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-cockroach-inspired-robot.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seas.harvard.edu\/directory\/rjwood\">Robert J. Wood<\/a>, Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SEAS, researchers in the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory have developed a centimeter-scale robot inspired by cockroaches.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seas.harvard.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/cockroach-inspired-robot\">https:\/\/www.seas.harvard.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/cockroach-inspired-robot<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever tried to kill an interloping cockroach, you\u2019ve probably noticed two things: they\u2019re fast and nearly invincible. While those features make roaches terrifying to most people, it\u2019s a source of bioinspiration for roboticists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Led by Robert J. Wood, Charles River [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75922","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=75922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}