{"id":639523,"date":"2019-12-04T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=639523"},"modified":"2019-12-04T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T16:00:03","slug":"like-pavlovs-dog-this-thermoplastic-is-learning-a-new-trick-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=639523","title":{"rendered":"Like Pavlov&#039;s dog, this thermoplastic is learning a new trick: walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Finland are &#8220;training&#8221; pieces of plastic to walk under the command of light. The method developed, published December 4 in the journal Matter, is the first time a synthetic actuator &#8220;learns&#8221; to do new &#8220;tricks&#8221; based on its past experiences, without computer programming.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-12-pavlov-dog-thermoplastic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Like Pavlov&#8217;s dog, this thermoplastic is learning a new trick: walking<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Finland are &#8220;training&#8221; pieces of plastic to walk under the command of light. The method developed, published December 4 in the journal Matter, is the first time a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639523","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639523\/revisions"}],"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=639523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}