{"id":73149,"date":"2025-08-16T03:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73149\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T03:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:17:16","slug":"pentagon-funded-experiment-develops-robots-that-change-by-consuming-other-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73149\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots that Change by \u2018Consuming\u2019 Other Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at Columbia University, funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, have developed \u201cmachines that can grow by consuming other machines.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video of the experiment shows tubular robots that move by extending their shafts to inch along the ground. As the tubes gather, they connect and form into more complex shapes like triangles and tetrahedrons. With each piece consumed, the whole moves faster and with more elegance.<\/p>\n<p>    This post is for paid members only<\/p>\n<p>Become a paid member for unlimited ad-free access to articles, bonus podcast content, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/membership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Sign up for free access to this post<\/p>\n<p>Free members get access to posts like this one along with an email round-up of our week&#8217;s stories.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A team of researchers at Columbia University, funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-73149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}