{"id":15584,"date":"2015-07-21T02:40:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=15584"},"modified":"2015-07-21T02:40:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:40:14","slug":"robot-soldiers-by-geoff-dyer-financial-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/robot-soldiers-by-geoff-dyer-financial-times","title":{"rendered":"Robot Soldiers \u2014 By Geoff Dyer | Financial Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jpJnxtuk9ec?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There was no one standing beside Chimp with a joystick, manipulating the robot\u2019s every movement. Instead, Chimp\u2019s head and body are packed with cameras, sensors and processors that allow it to generate a 3D model of its environment, which it sends back to a control team. \u201cIf it is a task that is familiar, we can say \u2018grab that drill or turn that valve\u2019,\u201d says Tony Stentz, a Carnegie Mellon university professor who runs Chimp. Or to put it more bluntly, the robot was making many of the decisions itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/45a2972a-2b2b-11e5-acfb-cbd2e1c81cca.html#slide0\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no one standing beside Chimp with a joystick, manipulating the robot\u2019s every movement. Instead, Chimp\u2019s head and body are packed with cameras, sensors and processors that allow it to generate a 3D model of its environment, which it sends back to a control team. \u201cIf it is a task that is familiar, we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-15584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai","tag-darpa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584","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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}