{"id":105725,"date":"2020-04-19T01:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T08:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/will-covid-19-accelerate-the-use-of-robots-at-work"},"modified":"2020-04-19T01:22:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T08:22:20","slug":"will-covid-19-accelerate-the-use-of-robots-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/will-covid-19-accelerate-the-use-of-robots-at-work","title":{"rendered":"Will Covid-19 accelerate the use of robots at work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/will-covid-19-accelerate-the-use-of-robots-at-work2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople usually say they want a human element to their interactions but Covid-19 has changed that,\u201d says Martin Ford, a futurist who has written about the ways robots will be integrated into the economy in the coming decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Covid-19] is going to change consumer preference and really open up new opportunities for automation.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Robot workers can help us keep social distance but once machines take over it will be hard to go back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople usually say they want a human element to their interactions but Covid-19 has changed that,\u201d says Martin Ford, a futurist who has written about the ways robots will be integrated into the economy in the coming decades. \u201c[Covid-19] is going to change consumer preference and really open up new opportunities for automation.\u201d Robot workers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105725","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}