{"id":1665,"date":"2012-11-19T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2012-11-19T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T13:26:10","slug":"nanotube-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/11\/19\/nanotube-muscles\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanotube muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny muscles pull a big punch<br \/>\nCoated carbon nanotubes form the basis of smart new material<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/generic\/id\/346486\/title\/Tiny_muscles_pull_a_big_punch\">http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/generic\/id\/346486\/title\/Tiny_muscles_pull_a_big_punch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though we are a decade (at least!) away from any practical application, I find this quite interesting.  I believe that we are starting to achieve breakthroughs that will enable us (as a species, of course) to build machines that might entirely lack any sort of metal or wiring.  Current robots tend to be rather inflexible and the command\/control mechanisms seem to be rather complicated, the idea of more organic structures seems to be a practical path forward to increase flexibility.  Of course, I am sure the best versions will be hybrids of electromechanical and organic.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, perhaps I am just fantasizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny muscles pull a big punch Coated carbon nanotubes form the basis of smart new material http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/generic\/id\/346486\/title\/Tiny_muscles_pull_a_big_punch Though we are a decade (at least!) away from any practical application, I find this quite interesting. I believe that we are starting to achieve breakthroughs that will enable us (as a species, of course) to build machines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/11\/19\/nanotube-muscles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nanotube muscles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}