{"id":119491,"date":"2021-02-12T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/huggiebot-2-0-a-soft-and-human-size-robot-that-hugs-users-on-request"},"modified":"2021-02-12T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T22:23:08","slug":"huggiebot-2-0-a-soft-and-human-size-robot-that-hugs-users-on-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/huggiebot-2-0-a-soft-and-human-size-robot-that-hugs-users-on-request","title":{"rendered":"HuggieBot 2.0: A soft and human-size robot that hugs users on request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/huggiebot-2-0-a-soft-and-human-size-robot-that-hugs-users-on-request.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) and ETH Z\u00fcrich have recently created HuggieBot 2.0, a robot that can hug users at their request. This robot, set to be presented at the ACM\/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in March, builds on a previous robotic system created by Alexis E. Block, one of the authors, during her Master\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) and ETH Z\u00fcrich have recently created HuggieBot 2.0, a robot that can hug users at their request. This robot, set to be presented at the ACM\/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in March, builds on a previous robotic system created by Alexis E. Block, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119491","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}