{"id":102830,"date":"2020-02-25T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/your-next-tire-change-could-be-performed-by-a-robot"},"modified":"2020-02-25T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T18:44:09","slug":"your-next-tire-change-could-be-performed-by-a-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/your-next-tire-change-could-be-performed-by-a-robot","title":{"rendered":"Your next tire change could be performed by a robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-next-tire-change-could-be-performed-by-a-robot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Waiting in a service station waiting room purgatory one day, Victor Darolfi had a simple thought. \u201cI sat at America\u2019s Tires for three hours and thought, hey, we use robots to put tires on at the factory,\u201d the founder explains. \u201cWhy don\u2019t we bring robots into the service industry?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The notion was the first seed behind RoboTire, the Bay Area-based robotics company, which the former Spark Robotics CEO founded in October 2018. Now ready to come out of stealth as part of the latest batch of Y Combinator startups, RoboTire has already generated interest in the industry for its ability to change car tires in a fraction of the time of most mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can do a set of four tires, put in to pull out, in 10 minutes,\u201d Darolfi explains. \u201cIt normally takes about 60 minutes for a human operator to do a set of four. Some can go faster, but they really can\u2019t do that eight hours a day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting in a service station waiting room purgatory one day, Victor Darolfi had a simple thought. \u201cI sat at America\u2019s Tires for three hours and thought, hey, we use robots to put tires on at the factory,\u201d the founder explains. \u201cWhy don\u2019t we bring robots into the service industry?\u201d The notion was the first seed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102830","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=102830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}