{"id":93,"date":"2018-03-05T13:11:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T20:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/?p=93"},"modified":"2018-03-05T13:11:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T20:11:31","slug":"spine-movement-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/2018\/03\/05\/spine-movement-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Spine Movement Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">New Direction (Air Chambers)<\/p>\n<p>After Paul mentioned that he liked how the sponge was &#8220;squishy&#8221; and the concept was a lot less &#8220;skeletal&#8221; than previous cuddlebots with spinal-like movements, I decided to pursue this direction. It was through some research this week that I decided to pursue the idea of soft-bodied robots. In particular the concept of pneumatics, where one pushes air into silicone based bodies to cause a wide range of movements. In pursuit of this, I find an instructable to start on:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Air-Powered-Soft-Robotic-Gripper\/<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.instructables.com\/F2N\/J6UO\/HDRS6HBO\/F2NJ6UOHDRS6HBO.LARGE.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I will continue to work on this idea for the next few weeks to see if this is a viable idea for movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Direction (Air Chambers) After Paul mentioned that he liked how the sponge was &#8220;squishy&#8221; and the concept was a lot less &#8220;skeletal&#8221; than previous cuddlebots with spinal-like movements, I decided to pursue this direction. It was through some research this week that I decided to pursue the idea of soft-bodied robots. In particular the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3177893],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-spinal-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cuddlebits18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}