{"id":97331,"date":"2019-10-11T18:42:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T01:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/shape-shifting-robot-built-from-smarticles-shows-new-locomotion-strategy"},"modified":"2019-10-11T18:42:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T01:42:45","slug":"shape-shifting-robot-built-from-smarticles-shows-new-locomotion-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/shape-shifting-robot-built-from-smarticles-shows-new-locomotion-strategy","title":{"rendered":"Shape-shifting robot built from \u2018smarticles\u2019 shows new locomotion strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the new shape-shifting robot made out of \u201csmarticiles\u201d that show a new locomotive strategies!! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/09\/190918140759.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/09\/190918140759.htm<\/a> ~via ScienceDaily\u2026 #churchofperpetuallife #perpetuallife #sciencedaily<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Building conventional robots typically requires carefully combining components like motors, batteries, actuators, body segments, legs and wheels. Now, researchers have taken a new approach, building a robot entirely from smaller robots known as \u201csmarticles\u201d to unlock the principles of a potentially new locomotion technique.<\/p>\n<p>The 3D-printed smarticles \u2014 short for smart active particles \u2014 can do just one thing: flap their two arms. But when five of these smarticles are confined in a circle, they begin to nudge one another, forming a robophysical system known as a \u201csupersmarticle\u201d that can move by itself. Adding a light or sound sensor allows the supersmarticle to move in response to the stimulus \u2014 and even be controlled well enough to navigate a maze.<\/p>\n<p>Though rudimentary now, the notion of making robots from smaller robots \u2014 and taking advantage of the group capabilities that arise by combining individuals \u2014 could provide mechanically based control over very small robots. Ultimately, the emergent behavior of the group could provide a new locomotion and control approach for small robots that could potentially change shapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the new shape-shifting robot made out of \u201csmarticiles\u201d that show a new locomotive strategies!! https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/09\/190918140759.htm ~via ScienceDaily\u2026 #churchofperpetuallife #perpetuallife #sciencedaily Building conventional robots typically requires carefully combining components like motors, batteries, actuators, body segments, legs and wheels. Now, researchers have taken a new approach, building a robot entirely from smaller robots known as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97331","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}