{"id":19318,"date":"2015-11-14T08:47:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/these-are-the-droids-were-looking-for"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:24:10","slug":"these-are-the-droids-were-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/these-are-the-droids-were-looking-for","title":{"rendered":"These Are the Droids We\u2019re Looking For"},"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\/NeFkrwagYfc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Could the planet\u2019s next catastrophe be averted by R2-D2? That\u2019s the idea behind the <strong>DARPA Robotics Challenge,<\/strong> a robot Olympiad designed to create autonomous machines that can go where no man can or should go\u2014nuclear disaster sites, minefields, Montauk over Labor Day weekend\u2014and fix all the toxic messes we make. The stakes are $3.5 million. Oh, and possibly the future of mankind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/robots-save-the-world-darpa-robotics-challenge\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could the planet\u2019s next catastrophe be averted by R2-D2? That\u2019s the idea behind the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a robot Olympiad designed to create autonomous machines that can go where no man can or should go\u2014nuclear disaster sites, minefields, Montauk over Labor Day weekend\u2014and fix all the toxic messes we make. The stakes are $3.5 million. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318","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=19318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63700,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions\/63700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}