{"id":184227,"date":"2024-03-02T11:25:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/electric-sheeps-jolly-ai-powered-garden-bot-edges-trims-and-blows"},"modified":"2024-03-02T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T17:25:21","slug":"electric-sheeps-jolly-ai-powered-garden-bot-edges-trims-and-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/electric-sheeps-jolly-ai-powered-garden-bot-edges-trims-and-blows","title":{"rendered":"Electric Sheep\u2019s jolly AI-powered garden bot edges, trims and blows"},"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\/XC_5T7LgPso?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robotic garden helpers have been keeping lawns in trim <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/husqvarnas-robot-lawn-mower\/1275\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">for decades<\/a>, but none are as much fun to watch as the Verdie AI-powered outdoor maintenance bot from Electric Sheep as it wheels around edges, blows debris and gets to grips with power tools.<\/p>\n<p>For the last few years, San Francisco\u2019s Electric Sheep Robotics has been providing automated outdoor maintenance tech as a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/robotics\/dexter-autonomous-lawnmowers\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Robots-as-a-Service rental model<\/a>. But more recently the company has been acquiring traditional outdoor service providers and \u201cprogressively transforming operations by deploying proprietary AI software and robots\u201d in a move towards becoming a large-scale outdoor maintenance company.<\/p>\n<p>Tapping into this US$1 trillion market involves replacing the \u201cwide variety of highly pollutant gas power tools; string trimmers, leaf blowers, weed sprayers, etc\u201d \u2013 while also addressing labor shortages in the industry \u2013 by rolling out emission-free automated helpers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robotic garden helpers have been keeping lawns in trim for decades, but none are as much fun to watch as the Verdie AI-powered outdoor maintenance bot from Electric Sheep as it wheels around edges, blows debris and gets to grips with power tools. For the last few years, San Francisco\u2019s Electric Sheep Robotics has been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184227","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}