{"id":13559,"date":"2015-02-28T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13559"},"modified":"2015-02-21T17:36:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T01:36:07","slug":"a-telepresence-robot-with-a-gripping-arm-origibot-is-a-dream-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/a-telepresence-robot-with-a-gripping-arm-origibot-is-a-dream-come-true","title":{"rendered":"A Telepresence Robot with a Gripping Arm? ORIGIBOT Is a Dream Come True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by David J. Hill\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/dhill\/\" rel=\"author\">David J. Hill<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/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\/cKd1zR96rYg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">Telepresence robots are awesome, but the experience can be frustrating at times. The reason? They lack arms. Whether you want to examine an object yourself, open a door, or pretend to be the Terminator with a Nerf gun, the lack of even a rudimentary claw can leave you feeling like a half a person, a mind wandering atop a remote control toy.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\">Not anymore.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/origibot-remote-telepresence-robot-w-gripper\">Launched on Indiegogo three days ago<\/a>, the ORIGIBOT is an Android-based telerobotic platform that comes with a robotic arm and gripper. With 5 degrees of freedom, the robot allows for all sorts of motion and control using desktop or mobiles devices.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/02\/20\/a-telepresence-robot-with-a-gripping-arm-origibot-is-a-dream-come-true\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David J. Hill \u2014 Singularity Hub Telepresence robots are awesome, but the experience can be frustrating at times. The reason? They lack arms. Whether you want to examine an object yourself, open a door, or pretend to be the Terminator with a Nerf gun, the lack of even a rudimentary claw can leave you [\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-13559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559","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=13559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}