{"id":13801,"date":"2025-05-16T12:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13801"},"modified":"2025-06-07T12:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:30:02","slug":"robot-turtle-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/16\/robot-turtle-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Turtle, Cool!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/forget-humanoids-at-mit-worms-and-turtles-are-inspiring-a-new-generation-of-robots-3abf7d5f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forget Humanoids. At MIT, Worms and Turtles Are Inspiring a New Generation of Robots<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniela Rus, the director of MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, is developing robots that take more cues from nature than science fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/isabelle-bousquette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Isabelle Bousquette<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forget Humanoids. At MIT, Worms and Turtles Are Inspiring a New Generation of Robots\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xojVQx8VpU4?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CAMBRIDGE, Mass.\u2014Everyone is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/humanoid-robot-workers-ai-brain-08027439?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">obsessed with humanoid robots<\/a>&nbsp;right now, but the director of MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory thinks tomorrow\u2019s intelligent physical machines could be something radically different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think soft and squishy robots, says&nbsp;Daniela Rus. Picture flexible robots, or even edible ones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her research group has built a robot out of sausage casing (and a small magnet) that could theoretically be eaten and then perform small-scale non-invasive surgeries, Rus said. Another project is a robotic sea turtle named Crush, designed to help monitor sea life, which uses silicone flippers to maneuver around delicate coral reefs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rus was a pioneer of this approach, known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/robots-are-learning-to-handle-with-care-1520820240?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">soft robotics<\/a>.\u201d Now creative new uses of artificial intelligence are pushing her work to a new level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really wanted to broaden our view of what a robot is,\u201d Rus said. \u201cSo if you have a mechanism that\u2019s made out of paper and that moves, is that a robot or not? If you have an origami flower that you attach to a motor, is that a robot or not? To me, it\u2019s a robot.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/forget-humanoids-at-mit-worms-and-turtles-are-inspiring-a-new-generation-of-robots-3abf7d5f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal Forget Humanoids. At MIT, Worms and Turtles Are Inspiring a New Generation of Robots Daniela Rus, the director of MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, is developing robots that take more cues from nature than science fiction By\u00a0Isabelle Bousquette CAMBRIDGE, Mass.\u2014Everyone is&nbsp;obsessed with humanoid robots&nbsp;right now, but the director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}