{"id":125297,"date":"2021-08-11T18:42:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=125297"},"modified":"2021-09-16T15:46:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T10:16:28","slug":"scientists-develop-soft-robotic-actuators-using-porous-carbon-nanoparticles-from-waste-onion-peels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-develop-soft-robotic-actuators-using-porous-carbon-nanoparticles-from-waste-onion-peels\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop soft robotic actuators using porous carbon nanoparticles from waste onion peels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1744417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>PIB<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of Indian Scientists have developed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">soft robotic actuators using porous carbon nanoparticles from waste onion peels.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are Soft Robots or Actuators?<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Soft robots or actuators<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the specific subfield of robotics dealing with constructing robots from highly compliant materials similar to those found in living organisms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Soft robotics draws heavily<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the way in which living organisms move and adapt to their surroundings.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>In contrast to robots <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">built from rigid materials, soft robots allow for increased flexibility and adaptability for accomplishing tasks, as well as improved safety when working around humans.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>These characteristics <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">allow for the potential use of soft robotics in the fields of medicine and manufacturing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>What scientists have developed?<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Scientists have developed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">soft<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> robotic actuators with enhanced photomechanical capacity. It was developed using porous carbon nanoparticles from waste onion peels.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>These soft robots can act as <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">efficient traps for the illuminating low-power near-infrared (NIR) light. They can also convert a <strong>control signal into mechanical motion<\/strong> with bioengineering applications such as drug delivery, wearable and assistive devices, prostheses, and even artificial organs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? A team of Indian Scientists have developed soft robotic actuators using porous carbon nanoparticles from waste onion peels. What are Soft Robots or Actuators? Soft robots or actuators is the specific subfield of robotics dealing with constructing robots from highly compliant materials similar to those found in living organisms.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-develop-soft-robotic-actuators-using-porous-carbon-nanoparticles-from-waste-onion-peels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists develop soft robotic actuators using porous carbon nanoparticles from waste onion peels<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[8981,8982,9721,402],"class_list":["post-125297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-nano-technology","tag-porous-carbon-nano-particles","tag-robo","tag-robotics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}