{"id":39419,"date":"2016-09-27T23:35:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T23:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/npr-skunkbear-creepy-or-adorable\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:10:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:10:52","slug":"npr-skunkbear-creepy-or-adorable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/npr-skunkbear-creepy-or-adorable\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39419 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/npr-skunkbear-creepy-or-adorable\/attachment\/39420\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oe4gdjSGGY1t5fphqo1_r1_540-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/npr-skunkbear-creepy-or-adorable\/video-credit-harvard-seas\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oe4gdjSGGY1t5fphqo2_540-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-39421\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39421'>\n\t\t\t\tVideo Credit: Harvard SEAS\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/npr-skunkbear-creepy-or-adorable\/video-credit-harvard-seas-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_oe4gdjSGGY1t5fphqo4_540-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-39422\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39422'>\n\t\t\t\tVideo Credit: Harvard SEAS\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/npr.tumblr.com\/post\/151026027425\/skunkbear-creepy-or-adorable-researchers-at\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">npr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/skunkbear.tumblr.com\/post\/150977094344\">skunkbear<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Creepy or adorable? Researchers at Harvard University have demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft robot: the octobot.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of being controlled by electronics, the robot\u2019s logic board is powered by chemical reactions and fluid passing along tiny channels. Scientist have struggled to create completely soft robots because rigid components like circuit boards, power sources and electronic controls are difficult to replace. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the octobot and soft robotics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seas.harvard.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/first-autonomous-entirely-soft-robot\">here<\/a>\u00a0and see the full study published in Nature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v536\/n7617\/full\/nature19100.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Videos Credit: Harvard SEAS\/Image Credit\u00a0Lori Sanders<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019d say this octobot is creepily adorable or adorably creepy. <i>-Emily<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>npr: skunkbear: Creepy or adorable? Researchers at Harvard University have demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft robot: the octobot. Instead of being controlled by electronics, the robot\u2019s logic board is powered by chemical reactions and fluid passing along tiny channels. Scientist have struggled to create completely soft robots because rigid components like circuit boards, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-39419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-afN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39423,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39419\/revisions\/39423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}