{"id":166545,"date":"2023-06-27T20:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T01:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/dancing-cyborgs-japanese-researchers-develop-robot-arms-to-unlock-creativity"},"modified":"2023-06-27T20:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T01:37:34","slug":"dancing-cyborgs-japanese-researchers-develop-robot-arms-to-unlock-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/dancing-cyborgs-japanese-researchers-develop-robot-arms-to-unlock-creativity","title":{"rendered":"Dancing cyborgs: Japanese researchers develop robot arms to \u2018unlock creativity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dancing-cyborgs-japanese-researchers-develop-robot-arms-to-unlock-creativity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO (Reuters) \u2014 What would society look like if cyborg body parts were freely available for use like roadside rental bicycles? Masahiko Inami\u2019s team at the University of Tokyo have sought to find out by creating wearable robotic arms.<\/p>\n<p>Inami\u2019s team is developing a series of technologies rooted in the idea of \u201cjizai\u201d, an Japanese term that he says roughly denotes autonomy and the freedom to do as one pleases.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to foster something like the relationship between musician and instrument, \u201clying somewhere between a human and a tool, like how a musical instrument can become as if a part of your body.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters) \u2014 What would society look like if cyborg body parts were freely available for use like roadside rental bicycles? Masahiko Inami\u2019s team at the University of Tokyo have sought to find out by creating wearable robotic arms. Inami\u2019s team is developing a series of technologies rooted in the idea of \u201cjizai\u201d, an Japanese [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6,1491,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166545","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}