{"id":175592,"date":"2023-11-07T20:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T02:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/humanoid-robots-are-here-but-theyre-a-little-awkward-do-we-really-need-them"},"modified":"2023-11-07T20:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T02:23:14","slug":"humanoid-robots-are-here-but-theyre-a-little-awkward-do-we-really-need-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/humanoid-robots-are-here-but-theyre-a-little-awkward-do-we-really-need-them","title":{"rendered":"Humanoid robots are here, but they\u2019re a little awkward. Do we really need them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humanoid-robots-are-here-but-theyre-a-little-awkward-do-we-really-need-them.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Building a robot that\u2019s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction. While the latest artificial intelligence craze has sparked another wave of investments in the quest to build a humanoid, most of the current prototypes are clumsy and impractical, looking better in staged performances than in real life. That hasn\u2019t stopped a handful of startups from keeping at it. The intention is not to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a robot that\u2019s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction. While the latest artificial intelligence craze has sparked another wave of investments in the quest to build a humanoid, most of the current prototypes are clumsy and impractical, looking better in staged performances than in real life. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175592","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}