{"id":105005,"date":"2018-02-27T01:38:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T01:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=105005"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:38:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:38:44","slug":"robot-slinks-around-harvard-thanks-to-synthetic-snakeskin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/robot-slinks-around-harvard-thanks-to-synthetic-snakeskin\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot slinks around Harvard thanks to synthetic snakeskin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SIQma9gyw4E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SIQma9gyw4E\">Harvard University<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s <strong>a snake-like bot<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/harvard-snakeskin-robot\/\">prowling around Harvard<\/a>, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kirigami\">kirigami<\/a>, the <strong>ancient Japanese art <\/strong>of paper cutting.<\/p>\n<p>Builders of the <strong>weird, inflatable soft machine<\/strong> took advantage of the far-eastern technique to <strong>create three-dimensional scales<\/strong> that pop up from its artificial skin, which allows the bionic beast to <strong>gain traction on surfaces<\/strong> as it slithers along.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s effective, <strong>and a lot more practical<\/strong> than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gmZl0U90Xng\">recreating the real thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard\u2019s <strong>synthetic serpent can navigate very tight spaces<\/strong>, which is ideal for searching rubble for survivors in the aftermath of an earthquake, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it will have any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sBM8guGUoOQ\">more exotic applications<\/a> remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0Harvard University There\u2019s a snake-like bot prowling around Harvard, thanks to kirigami, the ancient Japanese art of paper cutting. Builders of the weird, inflatable soft machine took advantage of the far-eastern technique to create three-dimensional scales that pop up from its artificial skin, which allows the bionic beast to gain traction on surfaces as it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/robot-slinks-around-harvard-thanks-to-synthetic-snakeskin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robot slinks around Harvard thanks to synthetic snakeskin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":105255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1032],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-105005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gadgets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328245,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105005\/revisions\/328245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105005"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=105005"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=105005"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=105005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}