{"id":6400,"date":"2010-08-30T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6400"},"modified":"2010-08-30T03:00:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T08:00:32","slug":"can-i-get-insurance-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6400","title":{"rendered":"Can I Get Insurance for it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2010\/august\/gecko-082410.html\">Secrets of the gecko foot help robot climb<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Stanford mechanical engineer is using the biology of a gecko&#8217;s sticky foot to create a robot that climbs. In the same way the small reptile can scale a wall of slick glass, the Stickybot can climb smooth surfaces with feet modeled on the intricate design of gecko toes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you watch the video, you might notice that they appear to have edited out a section discussing the need for a tail \u2014 the only kept the part when they added the tail and tell us the &#8220;now stickybot can climb.&#8221;  It&#8217;s too bad, because I think there&#8217;s a bit of interesting physics there.  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/gecko-inspired-robot-goes-vertical\/9742-1_53-50000282.html\">mentioned briefly in this video<\/a>, where you can see a real gecko with its tail pressing against a surface,  the hind legs acting as a fulcrum, so that it can move its upper body back toward the surface. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secrets of the gecko foot help robot climb A Stanford mechanical engineer is using the biology of a gecko&#8217;s sticky foot to create a robot that climbs. In the same way the small reptile can scale a wall of slick &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}