{"id":164336,"date":"2023-05-21T12:28:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-general-purpose-robot-is-entering-the-workforce"},"modified":"2023-05-26T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T01:54:07","slug":"a-general-purpose-robot-is-entering-the-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-general-purpose-robot-is-entering-the-workforce","title":{"rendered":"A general-purpose robot is entering the workforce"},"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\/k2GhgO7SnZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tech startup Sanctuary AI has unveiled a general-purpose robot designed to perform many workplace tasks currently handled by people \u2014 working with humans or without them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.com\/story\/the-steady-rise-of-robots-in-the-workplace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robots<\/a> have worked alongside people for decades, and traditionally, they\u2019ve been incredibly specialized \u2014 a bot on a General Motors\u2019 assembly line, for example, might move pieces of metal from one place to another over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>This has meant business owners would need to purchase multiple (usually expensive) robots if they wanted to automate multiple tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech startup Sanctuary AI has unveiled a general-purpose robot designed to perform many workplace tasks currently handled by people \u2014 working with humans or without them. The challenge: Robots have worked alongside people for decades, and traditionally, they\u2019ve been incredibly specialized \u2014 a bot on a General Motors\u2019 assembly line, for example, might move pieces [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164336","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164608,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164336\/revisions\/164608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}