{"id":97448,"date":"2019-10-15T11:23:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T18:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/researchers-build-a-soft-robot-with-neurologic-capabilities"},"modified":"2019-10-15T11:23:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T18:23:49","slug":"researchers-build-a-soft-robot-with-neurologic-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/researchers-build-a-soft-robot-with-neurologic-capabilities","title":{"rendered":"Researchers build a soft robot with neurologic capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-build-a-soft-robot-with-neurologic-capabilities.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In work that combines a deep understanding of the biology of soft-bodied animals such as earthworms with advances in materials and electronic technologies, researchers from the United States and China have developed a robotic device containing a stretchable transistor that allows neurological function.<\/p>\n<p>Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, said the work represents a significant step toward the development of prosthetics that could directly connect with the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/peripheral+nerves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">peripheral nerves<\/a> in biological tissues, offering <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/neurological+function\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neurological function<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/artificial+limbs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial limbs<\/a>, as well as toward advances in soft neurorobots capable of thinking and making judgments. Yu is corresponding author for a paper describing the work, published in Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>He is also a principal investigator with the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In work that combines a deep understanding of the biology of soft-bodied animals such as earthworms with advances in materials and electronic technologies, researchers from the United States and China have developed a robotic device containing a stretchable transistor that allows neurological function. Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97448","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}