{"id":109884,"date":"2020-07-13T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T01:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-vietnam-helos-new-robot-brain-will-help-fight-a-different-kind-of-enemy"},"modified":"2020-07-13T18:57:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T01:57:07","slug":"a-vietnam-helos-new-robot-brain-will-help-fight-a-different-kind-of-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-vietnam-helos-new-robot-brain-will-help-fight-a-different-kind-of-enemy","title":{"rendered":"A Vietnam Helo\u2019s New Robot Brain Will Help Fight a Different Kind of Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_9Z7xH1RMgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On January 2, 2020, the state of New South Wales declared a state of emergency as Australia\u2019s bushfires continued their deadly rampage. The next day the Australian state\u2019s former fire commissioner urged the prime minister to call in back-up. The country needed more fire bombers from North America and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>But one machine already hard at work was the S-64E Air Crane, operated by Oregon-based Erickson Inc. Six of its huge helicopters had been already been dousing the fires that put Australians\u2014and the continent\u2019s indigenous wildlife\u2014at risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlying against the fires in Australia, we\u2019ve put more hours on the S-64s per week this year than we\u2019ve seen in quite some time,\u201d says Jeff Baxter, Director of Research and Development at Erickson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 2, 2020, the state of New South Wales declared a state of emergency as Australia\u2019s bushfires continued their deadly rampage. The next day the Australian state\u2019s former fire commissioner urged the prime minister to call in back-up. The country needed more fire bombers from North America and Europe. But one machine already hard [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109884","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=109884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}