{"id":189980,"date":"2024-05-24T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/nasa-partner-unveils-the-iphone-of-robots"},"modified":"2024-05-24T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T18:22:26","slug":"nasa-partner-unveils-the-iphone-of-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/nasa-partner-unveils-the-iphone-of-robots","title":{"rendered":"NASA partner unveils the \u201ciPhone\u201d of robots"},"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\/FHt-0zDVmU4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apptronik, a <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/humanoid-robot-apptronik-apollo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA-backed<\/a> robotics company, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/apptronik-unveils-apollo-a-humanoid-robot-to-redefine-the-future-of-work-301907453.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unveiled<\/a> Apollo, a humanoid robot that could revolutionize the workforce \u2014 because there\u2019s virtually no limit to the number of jobs it can do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe focus for Apptronik is to build one robot that can do thousands of different things,\u201d Jeff Cardenas, the company\u2019s co-founder and CEO, told Freethink. \u201cThe best way to think of it is kind of like the iPhone of robots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge: <\/strong>Robots have been automating repetitive tasks for decades \u2014 instead of having a person weld the same two car parts together 100 times a day, for example, an automaker might just add a welding robot to that segment of the assembly line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apptronik, a NASA-backed robotics company, has unveiled Apollo, a humanoid robot that could revolutionize the workforce \u2014 because there\u2019s virtually no limit to the number of jobs it can do. \u201cThe focus for Apptronik is to build one robot that can do thousands of different things,\u201d Jeff Cardenas, the company\u2019s co-founder and CEO, told Freethink. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1512,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189980","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}