{"id":187,"date":"2014-08-09T20:47:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T20:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerpotatoe.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2014-08-09T20:47:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T20:47:36","slug":"robot-transformers-are-becoming-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Robot Transformers Are Becoming Reality!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought the movie Transformers was mere science fiction, you might have been correct last year. It has turned out team of researchers from Harvard and MIT have developed a new kind of robot \u2013 one that is capable of folding and unfolding itself, much like origami.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting a robot to assemble itself autonomously and actually perform a function has been a milestone we\u2019ve been chasing for many years,\u201d researcher Robert J. Wood said in a press release<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Self-folding robots\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9M1zNIVGrjM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even though they don\u2019t look like much, this is actually a great achievement and first of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is the use for this? Well, first thing to come to mind is that they will make great toys. But in a world where space is becoming less and less, we can build machines that can fold up to smaller bits and tuck themselves away when not in use. For me, I still think it is cool to see a real life Transformer. Autobots!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought the movie Transformers was mere science fiction, you might have been correct last year. It has turned out team of researchers from Harvard and MIT have developed a new kind of robot \u2013 one that is capable of folding and unfolding itself, much like origami. &nbsp; \u201cGetting a robot to assemble itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,49,56],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-information","tag-information","tag-newest-technology","tag-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}