{"id":16746,"date":"2015-08-29T15:16:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T22:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/david-hanson-we-are-close-to-building-the-first-sentient-robot"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:39","slug":"david-hanson-we-are-close-to-building-the-first-sentient-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/david-hanson-we-are-close-to-building-the-first-sentient-robot","title":{"rendered":"David Hanson: We are close to building the first sentient robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/david-hanson-we-are-close-to-building-the-first-sentient-robot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hanson would be unimpressed by my use of the word \u201cit\u201d to describe his robots, though. His latest creations, Han and Sophia, are \u201che\u201d and \u201cshe\u201d respectively. And Hanson believes that the latter model will become the \u201cfirst sentient robot, the first one to achieve human-like consciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is because Sophia is smaller in size \u2013 all of her mechanisms fit inside a smaller chassis. This is beneficial for two reasons: she costs less to make in terms of materials and it takes her less energy to make facial expressions and move around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of this, she can make more of a difference in the world,\u201d Hanson explains. He adds:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/e27.co\/david-hanson-close-building-first-sentient-robot-20150826\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanson would be unimpressed by my use of the word \u201cit\u201d to describe his robots, though. His latest creations, Han and Sophia, are \u201che\u201d and \u201cshe\u201d respectively. And Hanson believes that the latter model will become the \u201cfirst sentient robot, the first one to achieve human-like consciousness.\u201d This is because Sophia is smaller in size [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16746","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69657,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16746\/revisions\/69657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}