{"id":192312,"date":"2024-07-04T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/japan-deploys-humanoid-robot-for-railway-maintenance"},"modified":"2024-07-04T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:23:13","slug":"japan-deploys-humanoid-robot-for-railway-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/japan-deploys-humanoid-robot-for-railway-maintenance","title":{"rendered":"Japan deploys humanoid robot for railway maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-deploys-humanoid-robot-for-railway-maintenance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It resembles a malevolent robot from 1980s sci-fi but West Japan Railway\u2019s new humanoid employee was designed with nothing more sinister than a spot of painting and gardening in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Starting this month, the machine with a crude head and coke-bottle eyes mounted on a truck\u2014which can drive on rails\u2014will be put to use for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/maintenance+work\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">maintenance work<\/a> on the firm\u2019s network.<\/p>\n<p>Its operator sits in a cockpit on the truck, \u201cseeing\u201d through the robot\u2019s eyes via cameras and operating its powerful limbs and hands remotely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It resembles a malevolent robot from 1980s sci-fi but West Japan Railway\u2019s new humanoid employee was designed with nothing more sinister than a spot of painting and gardening in mind. Starting this month, the machine with a crude head and coke-bottle eyes mounted on a truck\u2014which can drive on rails\u2014will be put to use for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192312","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}