{"id":19640,"date":"2024-01-23T08:56:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T03:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19640"},"modified":"2025-04-05T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:26:10","slug":"filo-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/filo-bot\/","title":{"rendered":"What is FiloBot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About FiloBot<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is different from conventional climbing robots as it\u00a0doesn\u2019t depend on pre-programmed movements.<\/li>\n<li>It instead\u00a0absorbs 3D printing filament through its head and extends its length over time, just like a creeper.<\/li>\n<li>The team utilised a combination of plant\u00a0behaviours like phototropism, negative phototropism and gravitropism and utilises these naturally occurring behaviours in high-tech robots.<\/li>\n<li>The tests for FiloBot have been successful and displayed remarkable adaptability that adjusts its growth trajectory dynamically in response to moving light intensity.<\/li>\n<li>Significance\n<ul>\n<li>By equipping autonomous systems with transportable additive manufacturing techniques merged with bioinspired behavioural strategies, future\u00a0robots can navigate unstructured and dynamic environments and even be capable of self-building infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>This new innovation has opened a new\u00a0potential impact of technology that can be\u00a0applied in robotics, where adaptability and responsiveness redefine the capabilities of climbing robots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Other similar innovations\n<ul>\n<li>A similar snake-like robot was unveiled by NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which was specifically crafted to work on rough terrains of our solar system\u2019s planets and moons.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The robot named\u00a0Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS 1.0) is engineered to navigate diverse landscapes, including ice, sand, cliff walls, deep craters and lava tubes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Phototropism?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the ability of the plant to re-orient the shoot growth towards a direction of light source. Phototropism is important to plants as it enhances the ability of plants to optimize their photosynthetic capacity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/science\/filobot-a-plant-inspired-robot-that-shoots-up-like-a-vine-plant-681879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>FiloBot, a plant-inspired robot that shoots up like a vine plant<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> FiloBot is different from conventional climbing robots as it doesn\u2019t depend on pre-programmed movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}