{"id":79199,"date":"2018-05-31T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T18:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/cometh-the-cyborg-improved-integration-of-living-muscles-into-robots"},"modified":"2018-05-31T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T18:22:36","slug":"cometh-the-cyborg-improved-integration-of-living-muscles-into-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/cometh-the-cyborg-improved-integration-of-living-muscles-into-robots","title":{"rendered":"Cometh the cyborg: Improved integration of living muscles into robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cometh-the-cyborg-improved-integration-of-living-muscles-into-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new field of biohybrid robotics involves the use of living tissue within robots, rather than just metal and plastic.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers have developed a novel method of growing whole muscles from hydrogel sheets impregnated with myoblasts. They then incorporated these muscles as antagonistic pairs into a biohybrid robot, which successfully performed manipulations of objects. This approach overcame earlier limitations of a short functional life of the muscles and their ability to exert only a weak force, paving the way for more advanced biohybrid robots.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/05\/180530144132.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/05\/180530144132.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new field of biohybrid robotics involves the use of living tissue within robots, rather than just metal and plastic. Researchers have developed a novel method of growing whole muscles from hydrogel sheets impregnated with myoblasts. They then incorporated these muscles as antagonistic pairs into a biohybrid robot, which successfully performed manipulations of objects. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79199","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\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}