{"id":11692,"date":"2014-07-01T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T18:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11692"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:06:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:06:36","slug":"brain-drain-is-threatening-the-future-of-u-s-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/brain-drain-is-threatening-the-future-of-u-s-robotics","title":{"rendered":"Brain Drain Is Threatening the Future of U.S. Robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline hidemobile\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/voices\/megan-garber\/6712\/\"> Megan Garber<\/a> \u2014 Defense One<br \/>\n<br \/> Should the <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/06\/is-america-incapable-of-regulating-robots\/373629\/\">establish a new federal agency to regulate robots<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s one potential problem with that proposal\u2014one that has very little to do with the law, and very much to do with technology: \u201cThe government has virtually no experts on the inside that understand autonomous robotic systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to Missy Cummings, a professor of engineering at Duke, an expert on drones and other robots, and a former fighter pilot. Cummings came to that conclusion\u2014one that means, she says, that \u201cthe United States government is in serious trouble\u201d\u2014while advising the government in, among other things, its development of a $100 million robotic helicopter program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2014\/06\/brain-drain-threatening-future-robotics\/87562\/?oref=d-skybox\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Garber \u2014 Defense One Should the U.S. establish a new federal agency to regulate robots? Here\u2019s one potential problem with that proposal\u2014one that has very little to do with the law, and very much to do with technology: \u201cThe government has virtually no experts on the inside that understand autonomous robotic systems.\u201d That\u2019s according [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64950,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions\/64950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}