{"id":96087,"date":"2019-09-11T15:42:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T22:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/flying-fish-robot-can-propel-itself-out-of-water-and-glide-through-the-air"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:42:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T22:42:42","slug":"flying-fish-robot-can-propel-itself-out-of-water-and-glide-through-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/flying-fish-robot-can-propel-itself-out-of-water-and-glide-through-the-air","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Flying fish\u2019 robot can propel itself out of water and glide through the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flying-fish-robot-can-propel-itself-out-of-water-and-glide-through-the-air2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bio-inspired bot uses water from the environment to create a gas and launch itself from the water\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>The robot, which can travel 26 metres through the air after take-off, could be used to collect <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/water+samples\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water samples<\/a> in hazardous and cluttered environments, such as during flooding or when monitoring <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/ocean+pollution\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ocean pollution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Robots that can transition from water to air are desirable in these situations, but the launch requires a lot of power, which has been difficult to achieve in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/small+robots\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">small robots<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bio-inspired bot uses water from the environment to create a gas and launch itself from the water\u2019s surface. The robot, which can travel 26 metres through the air after take-off, could be used to collect water samples in hazardous and cluttered environments, such as during flooding or when monitoring ocean pollution. Robots 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-96087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96087","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=96087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}