{"id":21573,"date":"2018-10-08T03:28:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T03:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Link-includes-a-video-showing-the-robots-in-action"},"modified":"2018-10-08T03:28:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T03:28:50","slug":"link-includes-a-video-showing-the-robots-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/10\/08\/link-includes-a-video-showing-the-robots-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Link includes a video showing the  robots in action."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p><strong>Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Link includes a video showing the  robots in action.<\/strong> &#8220;If fiberglass tubes suddenly started to sprout out of the ground, you might think you had stumbled on some alien invasion. But such tubes are a real thing, woven by newly developed autonomous robots to create large structures such as bridges and temporary shelters\u2014with minimal human input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each \u201cFiberbot\u201d has a winding arm that pulls fiber from a tank on the ground, mixes the materials in a nozzle, and winds the wetted fiber around itself like a silkworm cocooning. Next, the robot turns on an ultraviolet light to cook the fiber into a hard tube. Then, it deflates its body and uses a tiny motor and wheels to inch itself up on top of the hardened fiber, where the process begins again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The robots can tilt and use different winding patterns to vary the thickness and the direction of the tubes. As they build, the Fiberbots communicate with each other through a computer network to avoid running into each other or other obstacles. Together, they can calculate the most efficient way to build a given structure.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/09\/watch-these-alienlike-robots-weave-bus-size-fiberglass-structure-all-themselves?utm_source=newsfromscience&amp;utm_medium=facebook-text&amp;utm_campaign=alienrobotsmakeglassstuff-21801\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/09\/watch-these-alienlike-robots-weave-bus-size-fiberglass-structure-all-themselves?utm_source=newsfromscience&amp;utm_medium=facebook-text&amp;utm_campaign=alienrobotsmakeglassstuff-21801<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Link includes a video showing the  robots in action.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/10\/08\/link-includes-a-video-showing-the-robots-in-action\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}