{"id":101790,"date":"2020-02-02T22:44:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/how-microrobots-will-fix-our-roads-and-save-us-billions"},"modified":"2020-02-02T22:44:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:44:56","slug":"how-microrobots-will-fix-our-roads-and-save-us-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/how-microrobots-will-fix-our-roads-and-save-us-billions","title":{"rendered":"How Microrobots Will Fix Our Roads and Save Us Billions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xMpcXCWrnA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Swarms of microrobots will scuttle along beneath our roads and pavements, finding and fixing leaky pipes and faulty cables. Thanks to their efforts, we can avoid costly road work that costs billions of dollars each year\u2014not to mention frustrating traffic delays.<\/p>\n<p>That is, if a new project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/robots-to-fix-underground-pipes-and-help-cut-roadworks\">sponsored by the U.K. government<\/a> is a success. Recent developments in the space seem to point towards a bright future for <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/01\/22\/this-awesome-robot-is-the-size-of-a-penny-and-precise-enough-for-eye-surgery\/\">microrobots<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swarms of microrobots will scuttle along beneath our roads and pavements, finding and fixing leaky pipes and faulty cables. Thanks to their efforts, we can avoid costly road work that costs billions of dollars each year\u2014not to mention frustrating traffic delays. That is, if a new project sponsored by the U.K. government is a success. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}