{"id":193492,"date":"2026-03-06T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/these-robots-are-born-to-run-and-never-die\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:20:09","slug":"these-robots-are-born-to-run-and-never-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/these-robots-are-born-to-run-and-never-die\/","title":{"rendered":"These robots are born to run \u2014 and never die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\/2026\/03\/evolved-robots-are-born-to-run-and-refuse-to-die\">These robots are born to run \u2014 and never die<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\/2026\/03\/evolved-robots-are-born-to-run-and-refuse-to-die\">https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\/2026\/03\/evolved-robots-are-born-to-run-and-refuse-to-die<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-06 15:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.northwestern.edu\">news.northwestern.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Northwestern University engineers have developed modular robots called &#8220;legged metamachines&#8221;, which can combine in various configurations and recover from injuries, pointing to a future where robots are more resilient and adaptive.<\/li>\n<li>Each robot module is equipped with its own motor, battery, and computer, allowing it to move and act independently, then combine with other modules to form complex structures, demonstrating greater agility and durability.<\/li>\n<li>The study used AI to evolve the robots, producing unique configurations that surpass traditional designs, enabling the metamachines to perform acrobatics, hop over obstacles, and right themselves when flipped.<\/li>\n<li>The modularity of the robots, combined with AI-driven design, allows them to resist catastrophic damage, with broken modules continuing to function as individual agents.<\/li>\n<li>These innovations open a new path for robotics, enabling robots to not just survive but to adapt dynamically to various environments and conditions, resembling resilient, evolving lifeforms rather than fragile tools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These robots are born to run \u2014 and never die https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\/2026\/03\/evolved-robots-are-born-to-run-and-refuse-to-die Publish Date: 2026-03-06 15:59:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/assets\/Stories\/2026\/03\/agile-robots1940__FocusFillMaxWyIwLjAwIiwiMC4wMCIsMTIwMCw2MzBd.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193494,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193492\/revisions\/193494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}