{"id":11956,"date":"2014-08-02T13:13:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T20:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11956"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:13:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:13:43","slug":"robot-olympics-planned-for-2020-powered-by-japans-robot-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/robot-olympics-planned-for-2020-powered-by-japans-robot-revolution","title":{"rendered":"Robot Olympics Planned for 2020 Powered by Japan\u2019s \u2018Robot Revolution\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<br \/>\n<br \/> Japan likes robots. And while some Americans raised on a confusing sci-fi diet of <em>Star Wars, Terminator, and iRobot <\/em>are perhaps a little wary of advanced AI and robotics\u2014Japan simply can\u2019t wait for the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/174828-japan-pm-wants-robot-olympics\/\">robot revolution<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a recent tour of Japanese robotics firms, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe declared his intention to create a government task force to study and propose strategies for tripling the size of Japan\u2019s robotics industry to $24 billion.<\/p>\n<p>And one more thing, Abe said, \u201cIn 2020, I would like to gather all of the world\u2019s robots and aim to hold an Olympics where they compete in technical skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While mere mortals compete in the 2020 summer Olympics in Tokyo\u2014in a stadium somewhere nearby, the world\u2019s most advanced robots may go head to head in events showcasing their considerable prowess (hopefully by then, right?).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/08\/02\/robot-olympics-planned-for-2020-powered-by-japans-robot-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub Japan likes robots. And while some Americans raised on a confusing sci-fi diet of Star Wars, Terminator, and iRobot are perhaps a little wary of advanced AI and robotics\u2014Japan simply can\u2019t wait for the \u201crobot revolution.\u201d In a recent tour of Japanese robotics firms, Japanese prime minister Shinzo [\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-11956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11956","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=11956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46946,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11956\/revisions\/46946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}