{"id":102485,"date":"2020-02-18T08:23:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/robot-waitress-from-japan-serves-up-smiles-in-war-torn-afghanistan"},"modified":"2020-02-18T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:23:42","slug":"robot-waitress-from-japan-serves-up-smiles-in-war-torn-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/robot-waitress-from-japan-serves-up-smiles-in-war-torn-afghanistan","title":{"rendered":"Robot waitress from Japan serves up smiles in war-torn Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robot-waitress-from-japan-serves-up-smiles-in-war-torn-afghanistan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s first-ever robot waitress glides up to a table of curious diners in central Kabul and presents them with a plate of French fries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you very much,\u201d the machine says in Dari, one of Afghanistan\u2019s two main languages.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurant manager Mohammad Rafi Shirzad says the humanoid robot, imported from Japan and designed to look vaguely like a women wearing a hijab, has already pulled in new customers since it started working last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s first-ever robot waitress glides up to a table of curious diners in central Kabul and presents them with a plate of French fries. \u201cThank you very much,\u201d the machine says in Dari, one of Afghanistan\u2019s two main languages. Restaurant manager Mohammad Rafi Shirzad says the humanoid robot, imported from Japan and designed to look [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102485","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}