{"id":14272,"date":"2015-05-17T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14272"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:58:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:58:32","slug":"robots-might-be-the-necessary-future-of-urban-pet-ownership-evan-ackerman-ieee-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/robots-might-be-the-necessary-future-of-urban-pet-ownership-evan-ackerman-ieee-spectrum","title":{"rendered":"Robots Might Be the Necessary Future of Urban Pet Ownership \u2014 Evan Ackerman | IEEE Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018If artificial pets can replicate the human benefits obtained from live pets, does that mean that the human\u2013animal emotional bond is solely dependent on ourselves and the image that we project on a live or artificial interactive partner? Does it ethically matter if the benefits of keeping artificial pets outweigh the risks, sparing other live pets\u2019 potential animal welfare issues?\u2019\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/home-robots\/robots-might-be-the-necessary-future-of-urban-pet-ownership\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2018If artificial pets can replicate the human benefits obtained from live pets, does that mean that the human\u2013animal emotional bond is solely dependent on ourselves and the image that we project on a live or artificial interactive partner? Does it ethically matter if the benefits of keeping artificial pets outweigh the risks, sparing other live [\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-14272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14272","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=14272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64727,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14272\/revisions\/64727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}