{"id":79303,"date":"2018-06-06T05:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T12:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/robots-will-be-able-to-feel-touch-with-this-artificial-nerve"},"modified":"2018-06-06T05:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T12:42:21","slug":"robots-will-be-able-to-feel-touch-with-this-artificial-nerve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/robots-will-be-able-to-feel-touch-with-this-artificial-nerve","title":{"rendered":"Robots Will Be Able to Feel Touch With This Artificial Nerve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-will-be-able-to-feel-touch-with-this-artificial-nerve.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the disembodied cockroach leg twitched, Yeongin Kim knew he had finally made it.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate student at Stanford, Kim had been working with an international team of neuroengineers on a crazy project: an artificial nerve that acts like the real thing. Like sensory neurons embedded in our skin, the device\u2014which kind of looks like a bendy Band-Aid\u2014detects touch, processes the information, and sends it off to other nerves.<\/p>\n<p>Yup, even if that downstream nerve is inside a cockroach leg.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/06\/05\/robots-will-be-able-to-feel-touch-with-this-artificial-nerve\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b70e3ec468-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-b70e3ec468-58220945#sm.00001082dyuwd9d75tglt24d90nrm\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/06\/05\/robots-will-be-able-to...lt24d90nrm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the disembodied cockroach leg twitched, Yeongin Kim knew he had finally made it. A graduate student at Stanford, Kim had been working with an international team of neuroengineers on a crazy project: an artificial nerve that acts like the real thing. Like sensory neurons embedded in our skin, the device\u2014which kind of looks like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79303","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}