{"id":130139,"date":"2021-11-06T18:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/a-robot-could-save-farmers-from-being-buried-alive-in-grain"},"modified":"2021-11-06T18:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T01:23:40","slug":"a-robot-could-save-farmers-from-being-buried-alive-in-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/a-robot-could-save-farmers-from-being-buried-alive-in-grain","title":{"rendered":"A robot could save farmers from being buried alive in grain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-robot-could-save-farmers-from-being-buried-alive-in-grain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t sound like a lot when you look at the numbers, but those are completely preventable deaths,\u201d Zane Zents, the lead software engineer for the Grain Weevil robot, <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraska.tv\/news\/local\/nebraska-students-receive-recognition-for-grain-bin-robot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told NTV News<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s something that in the 21st century I don\u2019t think we should still be dealing with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Grain Weevil:<\/strong> Zents\u2019 fellow student Ben Johnson was studying electrical engineering at UNO when he received a special request from a farmer friend, Zach Hunnicutt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(He) said, \u2018Hey, look, you guys build robots. Why don\u2019t you build me a robot so I and my children never have to go into a grain bin again?\u2019\u201d Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/news\/business\/technology\/robot-replace-need-farmers-go-inside-grain-bin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told AgWeb in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t sound like a lot when you look at the numbers, but those are completely preventable deaths,\u201d Zane Zents, the lead software engineer for the Grain Weevil robot, told NTV News. \u201cIt\u2019s something that in the 21st century I don\u2019t think we should still be dealing with.\u201d The Grain Weevil: Zents\u2019 fellow student Ben [\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-130139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130139","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=130139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}