{"id":3925856,"date":"2026-05-09T05:02:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/this-tiny-grain-of-rice-sensor-gives-robots-a-new-sense-and-changes-what-delicate-tools-can-detect\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:02:34","slug":"this-tiny-grain-of-rice-sensor-gives-robots-a-new-sense-and-changes-what-delicate-tools-can-detect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/this-tiny-grain-of-rice-sensor-gives-robots-a-new-sense-and-changes-what-delicate-tools-can-detect\/","title":{"rendered":"This tiny grain-of-rice sensor gives robots a new sense and changes what delicate tools can detect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Researchers have developed a sensor about the size of a grain of rice that can measure forces and twisting motions in all directions using light instead of traditional electronics. The new sensor could help robotic tools and medical devices &#8220;feel&#8221; what they are touching, especially at very small scales.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-tiny-grain-rice-sensor-robots.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a sensor about the size of a grain of rice that can measure forces and twisting motions in all directions using light instead of traditional electronics. The new sensor could help robotic tools and medical devices &#8220;feel&#8221; what they are touching, especially at very small scales. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}