{"id":7611,"date":"2025-10-16T04:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/metabots-shapeshift-from-flat-sheets-into-hundreds-of-structures\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T04:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:02:25","slug":"metabots-shapeshift-from-flat-sheets-into-hundreds-of-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/metabots-shapeshift-from-flat-sheets-into-hundreds-of-structures\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Metabots&#8217; shapeshift from flat sheets into hundreds of structures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>&#8216;Metabots&#8217; shapeshift from flat sheets into hundreds of structures<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Researchers have created a class of robots made from thin sheets of material that can snap into hundreds of stable shapes, allowing them to execute a wide variety of actions despite the fact that they have no motor and are made of a single, flat material. These &#8220;metabots&#8221; essentially resemble animated sheets of plastic, capable of moving around a surface or grasping objects.<\/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\/2025-10-metabots-shapeshift-flat-sheets-hundreds.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Metabots&#8217; shapeshift from flat sheets into hundreds of structures Researchers have created a class of robots made from thin sheets of material that can snap into hundreds of stable shapes, allowing them to execute a wide variety of actions despite the fact that they have no motor and are made of a single, flat material. [&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-7611","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\/7611"}],"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=7611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}