{"id":5800,"date":"2022-12-23T04:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T23:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5800"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T05:29:22","slug":"what-are-gelbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-gelbots\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Gelbots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What are Gelbots?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Gelbots are <strong>made out of gelatin,<\/strong> capable of moving without requiring an extra power source because of the way their shape, dimensions and patterning of gel are designed and are reportedly a significant advance in the world of soft robotics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They are <strong>created by 3D printing<\/strong> and would be easy for mass production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is the Principle?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The gels swell or shrink in response to temperature.<\/li>\n<li>This property can be strategically manipulated to move robots forward and backwards on flat surfaces or to have them crawl in certain directions with an undulating, wave-like motion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What are the Potential application areas?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>They can be used to create smart structures.<\/li>\n<li>Even they can be used for moving on surfaces through the human body to deliver targeted medicines.<\/li>\n<li>They could also be deployed as marine robots, patrolling and monitoring the ocean\u2019s surface.<\/li>\n<li>Gelbots can be trained to crawl in response to variations in human biomarkers and biochemical.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are the different types of robots?<\/h3>\n<p>The six most common types of robots are autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), automated guided vehicles (AGVs), articulated robots, humanoids, cobots, and hybrids.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/what-are-gelbots\/article66288742.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science for All | What are \u2018gelbots?\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gelbots are soft robots made out of gelatin by 3D printing capable of moving without extra power source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5800","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\/5800","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=5800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}