{"id":10717,"date":"2026-02-25T04:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/rise-of-the-rice-robots-creating-active-smart-materials\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:02:25","slug":"rise-of-the-rice-robots-creating-active-smart-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/rise-of-the-rice-robots-creating-active-smart-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the rice robots\u2014creating active smart materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Rise of the rice robots\u2014creating active smart materials<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Rice becomes weaker when compressed quickly, while staying stronger under slow pressure\u2014a discovery enabling scientists to design a new material that could be used to build &#8220;soft&#8221; robots that change stiffness automatically and protective gear that adapts to impact speed. Researchers harnessed this effect to design a new &#8220;metamaterial&#8221;\u2014an artificially engineered composite structure designed to behave in ways impossible for natural materials.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-02-rice-robots-smart-materials.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise of the rice robots\u2014creating active smart materials Rice becomes weaker when compressed quickly, while staying stronger under slow pressure\u2014a discovery enabling scientists to design a new material that could be used to build &#8220;soft&#8221; robots that change stiffness automatically and protective gear that adapts to impact speed. Researchers harnessed this effect to design a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,45],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-10717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics","category-techxplore","tag-techxplore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}