{"id":133124,"date":"2021-12-26T23:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T07:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/robot-avatar-safely-trims-trees-around-active-power-lines"},"modified":"2021-12-26T23:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T07:23:54","slug":"robot-avatar-safely-trims-trees-around-active-power-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/robot-avatar-safely-trims-trees-around-active-power-lines","title":{"rendered":"Robot avatar safely trims trees around active power lines"},"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\/HxuhrZHQWFs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A robot avatar that mimics the motions of a human controller could take the place of workers in several dangerous jobs, such as tree trimming and construction, by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> If a tree branch gets too close to a power line, it can cause electrical outages or, even worse, dangerous fires (as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/environment\/wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Californians<\/a> know all too well). To avoid this, utility companies have to regularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2019-03\/tree_trimming_manual.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trim trees<\/a> near their lines.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s dangerous work, as workers are dozens of feet above the ground, using sharp power tools to trim trees while power lives are still active \u2014 this puts them at risk of falls, cuts, and electrocution, all at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A robot avatar that mimics the motions of a human controller could take the place of workers in several dangerous jobs, such as tree trimming and construction, by the end of 2022. The challenge: If a tree branch gets too close to a power line, it can cause electrical outages or, even worse, dangerous fires [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133124","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}