{"id":93051,"date":"2019-07-02T15:23:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/this-jellyfish-robot-is-much-more-than-just-a-good-swimmer"},"modified":"2019-07-02T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T22:23:10","slug":"this-jellyfish-robot-is-much-more-than-just-a-good-swimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/this-jellyfish-robot-is-much-more-than-just-a-good-swimmer","title":{"rendered":"This Jellyfish Robot Is Much More Than Just a Good Swimmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-jellyfish-robot-is-much-more-than-just-a-good-swimmer3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d be hard-pressed to find more opposite opposites than jellyfish and robots. Jellyfish pump through the oceans with effortless grace, while robots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/06\/stop-laughing-clumsy-humanoid-robots\/\">struggle to not fall on their faces<\/a>\u2014and that\u2019s when they\u2019re not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/12\/17\/18144304\/kiwibot-fire-berkeley-california-thermal-runaway-faulty-battery\" target=\"_blank\">catching on fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, those two worlds are merging, with a tiny, exceedingly simple robot modeled after larval jellyfish that can scoot around untethered like the real thing. At less than a quarter inch across, the magnetically activated robot mimics the entrancing locomotion of a jellyfish and can use the resulting disruption of water flow to manipulate objects or burrow into the ground.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve read your last complimentary article this month. To read the full article, <a to=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=finalbarrier_text_failsafe\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=finalbarrier_text_failsafe\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a>. If you\u2019re already a subscriber, please <a to=\"\/account\/sign-in\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/account\/sign-in\/\">sign in<\/a> and and verify your subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019d be hard-pressed to find more opposite opposites than jellyfish and robots. Jellyfish pump through the oceans with effortless grace, while robots struggle to not fall on their faces\u2014and that\u2019s when they\u2019re not catching on fire. Now, though, those two worlds are merging, with a tiny, exceedingly simple robot modeled after larval jellyfish that can [\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-93051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93051","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=93051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}