{"id":179848,"date":"2024-01-04T21:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T03:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/southern-company"},"modified":"2024-01-04T21:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T03:22:45","slug":"southern-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/southern-company","title":{"rendered":"Southern Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/southern-company2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Southern Company has a historic commitment to energy innovation. Since the 1960s, the company has invested well over $2 billion in research and development (R&amp;D), and currently, their employees are on the forefront of delivering new ideas to build the future of energy.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Spot\u2014an agile robot. Chethan Acharya, a principal research engineer within Southern Company R&amp;D, first discovered Spot on social media.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Acharya\u2019s job was to find and test new sensors, analytics tools, and other solutions to help Southern Company improve operations and maintenance (O&amp;M) activities while also lowering costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Company has a historic commitment to energy innovation. Since the 1960s, the company has invested well over $2 billion in research and development (R&amp;D), and currently, their employees are on the forefront of delivering new ideas to build the future of energy. Enter Spot\u2014an agile robot. Chethan Acharya, a principal research engineer within Southern [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179848","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=179848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}