{"id":80860,"date":"2018-07-22T21:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T04:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/darpa-has-competition-plans-for-insect-scale-robots"},"modified":"2018-07-22T21:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T04:42:22","slug":"darpa-has-competition-plans-for-insect-scale-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/darpa-has-competition-plans-for-insect-scale-robots","title":{"rendered":"DARPA has competition plans for insect-scale robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-has-competition-plans-for-insect-scale-robots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, DARPA announced it is launching a new SHort-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2018-07-17\">SHRIMP<\/a>) program. SHRIMP will develop and demonstrate micro-to-milli robotic platforms for scenarios brought on by natural and critical disasters.<\/p>\n<p>As<i> <i>IEEE Spectrum<\/i><\/i> put it, it\u2019s a program to develop \u201cinsect-scale robots\u201d for disaster recovery and high-risk environments. The topic is simple enough to understand and it also is obvious that the means of accomplishing these platforms is tough.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA, said its announcement, will be facing the challenge of \u201ccreating extremely SWaP-constrained microrobotics.\u201d SWaP refers to size, weight and power.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-07-darpa-competition-insect-scale-robots.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;07-darpa-competition-in...obots.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, DARPA announced it is launching a new SHort-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms (SHRIMP) program. SHRIMP will develop and demonstrate micro-to-milli robotic platforms for scenarios brought on by natural and critical disasters. As IEEE Spectrum put it, it\u2019s a program to develop \u201cinsect-scale robots\u201d for disaster recovery and high-risk environments. The topic is simple [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80860","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}