{"id":480,"date":"2026-10-22T03:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2026-10-22T03:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:24:24","slug":"is-it-either-body-or-brain-first-when-building-autonomous-microrobots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Is it either body or brain first when building autonomous microrobots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schmidt, O.G., Bandari, V.K. &amp; McCaskill, J.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41928-025-01556-2\"><strong>It is either body or brain first when building autonomous microrobots<\/strong><\/a>. Nat Electron 9, 2\u20134 (2026).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Microscopic robots (microrobots) with integrated electronic chips have a range of potential medical, environmental and industrial applications. However, such systems have only recently become mass-producible, using either a body-first or a brain-first approach to fabrication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt, O.G., Bandari, V.K. &amp; McCaskill, J.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41928-025-01556-2\"><strong>It is either body or brain first when building autonomous microrobots<\/strong><\/a>. Nat Electron 9, 2\u20134 (2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schmidt, O.G., Bandari, V.K. &amp; McCaskill, J.S. It is either body or brain first when building autonomous microrobots. Nat Electron 9, 2\u20134 (2026). &#8220;Microscopic robots (microrobots) with integrated electronic chips have a range of potential medical, environmental and industrial applications. However, such systems have only recently become mass-producible, using either a body-first or a brain-first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microneurorobotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}