{"id":145379,"date":"2022-09-01T10:44:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/robot-that-stocks-drinks-is-newest-thing-at-the-corner-store"},"modified":"2022-09-01T10:44:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:44:01","slug":"robot-that-stocks-drinks-is-newest-thing-at-the-corner-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/robot-that-stocks-drinks-is-newest-thing-at-the-corner-store","title":{"rendered":"Robot that stocks drinks is newest thing at the corner store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robot-that-stocks-drinks-is-newest-thing-at-the-corner-store2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO (AP) \u2014 A small robot with a clip-like hand and enough smarts to know which drinks are popular is part of an effort to make convenience stores even more convenient.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent day in Tokyo, the robot named TX SCARA slid back and forth behind the refrigerated shelves in the back of a FamilyMart store.<\/p>\n<p>The hand on the end of its mechanical arm grasped a bottle or can from the stacks to the side, then the robot slithered to the right spot and placed the drink on the shelf \u2014 in a place chosen after its artificial intelligence and tiny cameras matched the kind of beverage to what\u2019s running short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (AP) \u2014 A small robot with a clip-like hand and enough smarts to know which drinks are popular is part of an effort to make convenience stores even more convenient. On a recent day in Tokyo, the robot named TX SCARA slid back and forth behind the refrigerated shelves in the back of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145379","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}