{"id":283470,"date":"2010-02-05T17:09:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T22:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6640"},"modified":"2010-02-05T17:09:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T22:09:21","slug":"first-they-took-the-auto-industry-jobs-%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/283470","title":{"rendered":"First they took the auto industry jobs \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; now they&#8217;re stealing childhood dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously though, the idea of highly functional humanoid robotics is a great idea for space travel. Of course <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellen_Ripley\" >Ellen Ripley<\/a> might disagree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/news\/frame.html?main=\/news\/news_single.html?id%3D11771\" >Via KurzweilAI.net<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"100%\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">NASA, GM team up to build robotic astronauts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">Computerworld, Feb. 4, 2010<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/05\/first-they-took-the-auto-industry-jobs\/loadBrain('National%20Aeronautics%20and%20Space%20Administration%20(NASA)')\">NASA<\/a> and General Motors (GM) are developing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/05\/first-they-took-the-auto-industry-jobs\/loadBrain('Humanoid')\">humanoid<\/a> robots that can work side-by-side with humans to help astronauts during dangerous mission and to help GM build cars and automotive plants.<\/p>\n<p>Robonaut 2, aka R2, is designed to be a &#8220;faster, more dexterous and more technologically advanced&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/05\/first-they-took-the-auto-industry-jobs\/loadBrain('Robot')\">robot<\/a> than Robonaut 1, using its hands to manipulate small parts, while also having exceptional strength.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/video.computerworld.com\/services\/player\/bcpid1351827287?bctid=64874561001\" >Video<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9152159\/NASA_GM_team_up_to_build_robotic_astronauts\" >Read Original Article&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6640\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6640\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6640\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6640\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6640\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6640\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6640\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6640\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6640\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6640\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=6640&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; now they&#8217;re stealing childhood dreams. Seriously though, the idea of highly functional humanoid robotics is a great idea for space travel. Of course Ellen Ripley might disagree. Via KurzweilAI.net: NASA, GM team up to build robotic astronauts Computerworld, Feb. 4, 2010 NASA and General Motors (GM) are developing\u00a0humanoid robots that can work side-by-side with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}