{"id":1994,"date":"2025-02-22T04:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T04:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/turning-robotic-ensembles-into-smart-materials-that-mimic-life\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T04:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T04:02:24","slug":"turning-robotic-ensembles-into-smart-materials-that-mimic-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/turning-robotic-ensembles-into-smart-materials-that-mimic-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning robotic ensembles into smart materials that mimic life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Turning robotic ensembles into smart materials that mimic life<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Researchers have engineered groups of robots that behave as smart materials with tunable shape and strength, mimicking living systems. &#8220;We&#8217;ve figured out a way for robots to behave more like a material,&#8221; said Matthew Devlin, a former doctoral researcher in the lab of University of California, Santa Barbara (USCB) mechanical engineering professor Elliot Hawkes, and the lead author of the article published in the journal Science.<\/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\/2025-02-robotic-ensembles-smart-materials-mimic.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning robotic ensembles into smart materials that mimic life Researchers have engineered groups of robots that behave as smart materials with tunable shape and strength, mimicking living systems. &#8220;We&#8217;ve figured out a way for robots to behave more like a material,&#8221; said Matthew Devlin, a former doctoral researcher in the lab of University of California, [&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-1994","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\/1994"}],"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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}