{"id":3515,"date":"2009-12-10T09:11:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T17:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2009-12-10T09:11:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T17:11:18","slug":"controllably-morphable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/10\/controllably-morphable\/","title":{"rendered":"Controllably Morphable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We occasionally joke about the looming robot menace, but seriously.  Discoblog has picked out the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/12\/10\/niftiest-robots-of-2009-they-swim-fly-check-your-colon\/\">Niftiest Robots of 2009<\/a>, but &#8220;Scariest&#8221; would have been an equally appropriate appellation.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there is a robot that crawls around inside your colon, not to mention a Japanese emobot, but the one I would least like to meet in a dark alley is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/10\/14\/military-blob-bot-to-ooze-its-way-past-enemy-lines\/\">Chembot<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a blob-shaped thing that uses jamming in granular materials to make a robot that can alter its shape.<\/p>\n<p>Still pretty primitive, but you can see where we&#8217;re headed here.  Don&#8217;t say we didn&#8217;t warn you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We occasionally joke about the looming robot menace, but seriously. Discoblog has picked out the Niftiest Robots of 2009, but &#8220;Scariest&#8221; would have been an equally appropriate appellation. Yes, there is a robot that crawls around inside your colon, not to mention a Japanese emobot, but the one I would least like to meet in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}