{"id":50201,"date":"2015-06-08T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_engineers_look_to_insects_for_robotic_inspiration\/"},"modified":"2015-06-08T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:00:07","slug":"la_times_engineers_look_to_insects_for_robotic_inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50201","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Engineers look to insects for robotic inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a UC Berkeley laboratory, engineers are building cockroach-like robots with a noble purpose \u201d\u201d search and rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller than the palm of a hand and weighing an ounce, the robots are fast, nimble, and equipped with microphones and thermostats to detect sound and heat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imagine there&#8217;s a warehouse that&#8217;s collapsed,&#8221; said Ronald Fearing, the director of UC Berkeley&#8217;s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, which developed the VelociRoach robot. &#8220;You can send in hundreds of these robots, and if there&#8217;s an opening, they can get through or get close to certain areas to notify rescuers they&#8217;ve found a survivor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-robot-insects-20150607-story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a UC Berkeley laboratory, engineers are building cockroach-like robots with a noble purpose \u201d\u201d search and rescue. Smaller than the palm of a hand and weighing an ounce, the robots are fast, nimble, and equipped with microphones and thermostats<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50201\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,189,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-general-interest","category-animals","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}