{"id":99167,"date":"2019-11-29T16:23:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T00:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/flexoskeleton-printing-fabricating-flexible-exoskeletons-for-insect-inspired-robots"},"modified":"2019-11-29T16:23:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T00:23:39","slug":"flexoskeleton-printing-fabricating-flexible-exoskeletons-for-insect-inspired-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/flexoskeleton-printing-fabricating-flexible-exoskeletons-for-insect-inspired-robots","title":{"rendered":"Flexoskeleton printing: Fabricating flexible exoskeletons for insect-inspired robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flexoskeleton-printing-fabricating-flexible-exoskeletons-for-insect-inspired-robots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Insects typically have a variety of complex exoskeleton structures, which support them in their movements and everyday activities. Fabricating artificial exoskeletons for insect-inspired robots that match the complexity of these naturally-occurring structures is a key challenge in the field of robotics.<\/p>\n<p>Although researchers have proposed several <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/fabrication+processes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fabrication processes<\/a> and techniques to produce exoskeletons for insect-inspired robots, many of these methods are extremely complex or rely on expensive equipment and materials. This makes them unfeasible and difficult to apply on a wider scale.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, researchers at the University of California in San Diego have recently developed a new process to design and fabricate components for insect-inspired robots with <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/exoskeleton\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">exoskeleton<\/a> structures. They introduced this process, called flexoskeleton printing, in <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1911.06897\">a paper prepublished on arXiv<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insects typically have a variety of complex exoskeleton structures, which support them in their movements and everyday activities. Fabricating artificial exoskeletons for insect-inspired robots that match the complexity of these naturally-occurring structures is a key challenge in the field of robotics. Although researchers have proposed several fabrication processes and techniques to produce exoskeletons for insect-inspired [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99167","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\/99167","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}