{"id":104845,"date":"2020-04-06T06:04:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-robot-stand-up-comedian-learns-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-comedy"},"modified":"2020-04-06T06:04:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:04:55","slug":"a-robot-stand-up-comedian-learns-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-robot-stand-up-comedian-learns-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-comedy","title":{"rendered":"A Robot Stand-Up Comedian Learns The Nuts And Bolts Of Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-robot-stand-up-comedian-learns-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-comedy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Social roboticist, Heather Knight, sees robots and entertainment a research-rich coupling. So she programmed a charming humanoid robot named DATA with jokes, and equipped it with sensors and algorithmic capabilities to help with timing and gauging a crowd. Then Knight and DATA hit the road on an international robot stand-up comedy tour. Their act landed stage time at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/heather_knight_silicon_based_comedy\/discussion#t-63820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" aria-label=\"TED conference\"> TED conference<\/a> and Knight was profiled in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/pictures\/mkg45giif\/heather-knight-chief-executive-graduate-student-marilyn-monrobot-carnegie-mellon-28\/#2bccc736761f\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Forbes 30 Under 30.\"> Forbes 30 Under 30.<\/a> Watching Data perform is much like watching an amateur stand-up comedian cutting her\/his chops at an open mic night doing light comedy with a sweet but wooden delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Knight\u2019s goal is specific:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social roboticist, Heather Knight, sees robots and entertainment a research-rich coupling. So she programmed a charming humanoid robot named DATA with jokes, and equipped it with sensors and algorithmic capabilities to help with timing and gauging a crowd. Then Knight and DATA hit the road on an international robot stand-up comedy tour. Their act landed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104845","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}