{"id":331833,"date":"2017-06-19T09:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=bf5a72118c9ca6b2607ed9e29e6018a3"},"modified":"2017-06-19T09:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:10:02","slug":"researchers-build-first-deployable-walking-soft-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=331833","title":{"rendered":"Researchers build first deployable, walking, soft robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)\u2014Researchers have built the first robot made of soft, deployable materials that is capable of moving itself without the use of motors or any additional mechanical components. The robot &#8220;walks&#8221; when an electric current is applied to shape-memory alloy wires embedded in its frame: the current heats the wires, causing the robot&#8217;s flexible segments to contract and bend. Sequentially controlling the current to various segments in different ways results in different walking gaits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)&mdash;Researchers have built the first robot made of soft, deployable materials that is capable of moving itself without the use of motors or any additional mechanical components. The robot &#8220;walks&#8221; when an electric current is applied to shape-memory alloy wires embedded in its frame: the current heats the wires, causing the robot&#8217;s flexible segments to contract and bend. Sequentially controlling the current to various segments in different ways results in different walking gaits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331834,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331833\/revisions\/331834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}