{"id":104902,"date":"2020-04-07T02:02:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/robots-replace-japanese-students-at-graduation-amid-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-04-07T02:02:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:02:32","slug":"robots-replace-japanese-students-at-graduation-amid-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/robots-replace-japanese-students-at-graduation-amid-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Robots replace Japanese students at graduation amid coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-replace-japanese-students-at-graduation-amid-coronavirus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the twilight zone.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>TOKYO (Reuters) \u2014 Spring graduation ceremonies in Japan have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but students at one school were able to attend remotely by controlling avatar robots while logged on at home.<\/p>\n<p>The robots, dubbed \u201cNewme\u201d by developer ANA Holdings, were dressed in graduation caps and gowns for the ceremony at the Business Breakthrough University in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The robots\u2019 \u201cfaces\u201d were tablets that displayed the faces of the graduates, who logged on at home and controlled the robots via their laptops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the twilight zone. TOKYO (Reuters) \u2014 Spring graduation ceremonies in Japan have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but students at one school were able to attend remotely by controlling avatar robots while logged on at home. The robots, dubbed \u201cNewme\u201d by developer ANA Holdings, were dressed in graduation caps and gowns [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104902","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=104902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}