{"id":6893,"date":"2010-10-27T06:27:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T11:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6893"},"modified":"2010-10-27T06:27:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T11:27:07","slug":"get-a-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6893","title":{"rendered":"Get a Grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2010-10-robotic-gripper-coffee-balloons.html\">Balloon filled with ground coffee makes ideal robotic gripper<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Particulate materials have a so-called jamming transition, which turns their behavior from fluid-like to solid-like when the particles can no longer slide past each other.<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon is familiar to coffee drinkers familiar with vacuum-packed coffee, which is hard as a brick until the package is unsealed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty neat (other than the part where they talk about a vacuum sucking the air out \u2014 it&#8217;s the external pressure that forces the air movement.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balloon filled with ground coffee makes ideal robotic gripper Particulate materials have a so-called jamming transition, which turns their behavior from fluid-like to solid-like when the particles can no longer slide past each other. This phenomenon is familiar to coffee &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6893\">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-6893","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\/6893","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=6893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}