{"id":93540,"date":"2019-07-13T08:42:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/mit-team-draws-on-cucumbers-to-develop-surprisingly-strong-artificial-muscles"},"modified":"2019-07-13T08:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:42:27","slug":"mit-team-draws-on-cucumbers-to-develop-surprisingly-strong-artificial-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/mit-team-draws-on-cucumbers-to-develop-surprisingly-strong-artificial-muscles","title":{"rendered":"MIT team draws on cucumbers to develop surprisingly strong artificial muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-team-draws-on-cucumbers-to-develop-surprisingly-strong-artificial-muscles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To develop a new artificial muscle for robots MIT researchers are taking inspiration from an unlikely source \u2013 the cucumber. It\u2019s not the fruit of the plant that\u2019s good for sandwiches and salads that the engineers are interested in, but the tightly coiled tendrils that wrap themselves around solid objects to support the growing plant by corkscrewing and pulling with surprising force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To develop a new artificial muscle for robots MIT researchers are taking inspiration from an unlikely source \u2013 the cucumber. It\u2019s not the fruit of the plant that\u2019s good for sandwiches and salads that the engineers are interested in, but the tightly coiled tendrils that wrap themselves around solid objects to support the growing plant [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93540","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\/93540","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=93540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}